Fastest Ship = invulnerable?

[Dilandu]

, though, so again we're talking about doctrines and preferred tactics, not actual hard technical limitations.

Actually, we are talking about the fundamental physic question - how could two Alcubierre bubbles interact when they came in contact)

I really doubt that there is any human on our planet now who knew anything about that for sure)

 

[Dilandu]

Perhaps it's best to ditch the Alcubierre nonsense altogether and declare warp fields something different altogether?

You have better theory?

Clearly it doesn't, as we have seen the edges of a warp bubble (of the NX ships) and they aren't in the multi-AU range.

And coincidently to NX ship ever fired his phasers on multi-AU range)

 

[Timo]

You have better theory?

Sure. You take some vertenium cortenide, pump warp plasma through it, and space bends over backward to grant you your wish. It's even canonical, you know...

And coincidently to NX ship ever fired his phasers on multi-AU range)

TNG era ships did equally proximal formation warping, including the TNG hero ship which sometimes did zero distance for warp bubble (saucer sep).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Well, the effective phaser distance in warp depends of the size of Alcubierre bubble around the ship.

Warp drive is comparable to the alcubierre metric but they are not actually related in any meaningful way.

I doubt that phaser beam could travel outside the bubble

We have "Balance of Terror" and "The Ultimate Computer" that says they can.

You have better theory?

Warp drive uses subspace fields. A subspace field, in Star Trek, is a kind of multi-dimensional space that can partially subsume normal matter and lower its effective mass in an observer's frame of reference. Lower the mass far enough, and the ship can move at basically any desired velocity with a very small impulse (e.g. a ship traveling under impulse power)

With a warp drive, energy conditions are also altered so that the ship is in a non-inertial (constantly moving) reference frame. Basically: the ship has more mass (and more inertia) along one vector than another and thus tends to "slide" along that vector relative to an outside of observer; from the point of view of the crew, the ship is in its own little universe and it's EVERYTHING ELSE that's moving for no obvious reason.

And coincidently to NX ship ever fired his phasers on multi-AU range)

Enterprise didn't, but Duras's ship DID in the second half of "The Expanse."