Was the Enterprise a realistic casualty in A Taste of Armegeddon?

[Xerxes1979]

Assuming an actual state of war between Eminiar and Vendikar would a Federation starship really fall victim to a tricolbalt satellite explosion?

How could a realistic computer simulation be run without the parameters of Federation technology?

Even with their real planetary disruptor banks the Emininars would have been impotent to stop General Order 24.

Federation sensors appear to be able to detect nukes at distance as shown in "Patterns of Force" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday".

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Eminians couldn't conceive of any technology they couldn't stop, so in their minds, the ship was a casualty no matter how powerful it was. They had blinders like you wouldn't believe.

 

[Timo]

Then again, our heroes went to Eminiar with the intent of putting an end to ship disappearances in the region. They may or may not have directly suspected the Eminians, and the Eminians may or may not have been the guilty party. But if they dunnit, then it stands to reason that they had some experience with destroying modernish UFP hardware. Perhaps not enough to actually kill a starship, but enough to model such an outcome when their "weapons" were of a type that did not trigger any alarms aboard said ship!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[blssdwlf]

I think your thoughts on this is correct. Their simulation is only as good as the data and modeling put into it.

The last contact with a Federation ship was 50 years ago so even if they had programmed in the data for the Enterprise, it would've been based on 50 year old data and probably a faulty model.

But I'd guess it is more than likely that Eminiar 7 was trying to warn them away because the original programmers probably assumed any ship hit would get killed and no one bothered to update the code in 500 years. I wouldn't be surprised that the original coders might have been the first casualties and I know first hand that maintaining someone else's code could be pretty difficult. Imagine doing that and making sure both planetary governments agree to the code changes and the random chance in that period anyone on that programming team could be declared a casualty. Ugh

Assuming an actual state of war between Eminiar and Vendikar would a Federation starship really fall victim to a tricolbalt satellite explosion?

How could a realistic computer simulation be run without the parameters of Federation technology?

Even with their real planetary disruptor banks the Emininars would have been impotent to stop General Order 24.

Federation sensors appear to be able to detect nukes at distance as shown in "Patterns of Force" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday".