Hypothetical scenario: Doomsday Machine Heads for Earth.

[publiusr]

Once it is dead, it would make for a nice base, or one giant bullet

 

[Henoch]

If the most powerful phasers, etc. could not damage its neutronium hull, then what does the Federation use to cut, shape, and process the neutronium? Also, its probably so massive that towing it, etc. is not possible, either. Send in the research teams to study it for the next few centuries.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

If the most powerful phasers, etc. could not damage its neutronium hull, then what does the Federation use to cut, shape, and process the neutronium? Also, its probably so massive that towing it, etc. is not possible, either. Send in the research teams to study it for the next few centuries.

Other species have made Neutronium Alloy Hulls/Doors including the Dominion, so it stands to reason that it can be cut, you just have to figure out how.

It's probably one of those materials that can't be "Replicated", it has to be made the old fashioned way due to the density of the atoms.

 

[Sci]

I prefer how TOS showed there were other planets that could be made drama-worthy and not using that good old anchor known as "Earth".

Me too. Makes the Federation seem larger and not so Earth-centric.

Now Tosk had a great point - but the question here is, if the big killer windsock hadn't been intercepted by Constellation and thus Enterprise following, would anyone at Starfleet Command be able to figure it out in time than bunging a starship loaded with am imbalanced matter/antimatter reaction system down its gullet would work?

I think that depends on whether or not there were any other starships on patrol within range to intercept the Machine before it reached the Rigel system. I think that eventually, any starship engaging the Machine would have reached the point of being willing to give the kamikaze run a shot, but they might not have had enough time to realize that's the only viable option before it reached Rigel depending on when they intercepted.

Also, its probably so massive that towing it, etc. is not possible, either.

That's not how things work in zero gravity. No matter how massive something is, if force is applied to it, it will move.

 

[Henoch]

That's not how things work in zero gravity. No matter how massive something is, if force is applied to it, it will move.

If the ship's hull is made of neutronium, then it is very massive, like the mass of a large asteroid or possibly a moon. In both The Paradise Syndrome and FTWIHAIHTTS, the Enterprise was unable to divert the course of either asteroid. Also, I was thinking more in the line of "warp-towing" the DDM to another solar system in a lifetime or two. Sublight would be useless. TOS Starfleet has never shown moving such high masses around the galaxy; maybe they shove them around a solar system a little. But moving moons/planets? Nope, and certainly not between solar systems hundreds of light years apart.