I like Star Trek series and movies, but ...

[MrFun]

gravity plating? You're fuckin' kidding me, right?

How do immobile, stationary objects on the small scale of hull/deck plating generate gravity?

I would have expected something a lot more plausible.

[The Mad Monk]

Plausible like inertial damping?

[Hauldren Collider]

Plausible like teleporters?

[Ben Kenobi]

Plausible like non addictive synthale?

[regexcellent]

Plausible like Janeway ever passing the 3rd grade let alone becoming captain of a starship?

[N35t0r]

gravity plating? You're fuckin' kidding me, right?

How do immobile, stationary objects on the small scale of hull/deck plating generate gravity?

I would have expected something a lot more plausible.

How do immoblie, stationary objects like inductors generate magnetic fileds?

I would have expected something a lot more plausible from those fyssicists.


[insert famous Sagan quote here]

[Hauldren Collider]

Plausible like Janeway ever passing the 3rd grade let alone becoming captain of a starship?

Harsh, but true.

[DinoDoc]

Harsh, but true.

The Court Martial of Captain Kathryn Janeway

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Since I happened to have written about the stupid artificial gravity recently:

I have a theory about artificial gravity and warp drive in that universe...

Well, it starts with the plainly observable fact that everyone's artificial gravity is insanely reliable.

Clearly, none of this is original intent, but not only is it crazy reliable, but so cheap they put it everywhere, and every. single. species. that makes it into space has it.

So I conclude this: in the ST universe, there's stuff about how gravity works that was discovered by the mid 90's. Khan's ship had artificial gravity, and it wasn't spinning or accelerating. So there's a way to make, dunno, a gravity deck plating cheaply that works for a very long time with little or no power input. Every race discovers this application of the law of gravity pretty soon after they go into space. The same, or similar, techniques make for a nifty non-reaction gravity drive, which Starfleet calls "impulse". A slightly more sophisticated application involving the interaction of fields from two gravity generators [s]distorts[/s] warps space-time and makes for a nifty FTL drive. Thus, everyone and his mother has a FTL starship with two drive pylons of some sort. Both types of drive take a lot more juice then the deck plates because the gravity fields, by the nature of the thing, are not static, but have to expand and contract and vary in intensity. That Warp is probably by an order of magnitude more power-hungry than Impulse naturally follows.

I came up with that ST gravity theory about six months ago, and it kinda thrills me how well it fits the observable facts, and how much sense it makes. I can't even think of anything in fake ST that contradicts this. I'm amazed that it was even possible in a universe so thoroughly pawed-through by so many paws for so many years with no plan - it shouldn't be possible. I think I win the innerwebs today -when I can get on, anyway. The making sense game can be a lot of fun.

Of course, if someone made that much sense of something in Dr Who, I'd consider myself utterly topped...

[Sava]

in ST6, the torpedo hits disabled the gravity on Kronos 1

[Zevico]

A wizard did it!

[Lorizael]

How do immobile, stationary objects on the small scale of hull/deck plating generate gravity?

F = GMm/r^2

[ColdWizard]

A wizard did it!

Lies!