Size =/= power. When the enemy warship is 9000 times larger than you, it can waste 99% of its space and still annihilate you with what is left. When the enemy warship is more advanced than you, it just annihilates you faster (unless you have character shields). First Contact showed a Federation fle...

well, there's this group of people out in the Delta/Beta Quadrants... I was thinking this: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Hirogen_communications_network Voyager used it to talk to Starfleet (and send the Doctor) in "Message in a Bottle". Apparently regular messages would degrade, but a h...

oh and what good is a dictionary if you don't know how to spell something? the thing is arranged alphabeticly so if you don't know how to spell it, you'll never find it! Consider the trouble you went to finding it, an incentive to remember it and get it right next time. :P For the low efficiency, r...

Initially it did, but the Borg adapted quickly, after which it wasn't much more effective than usual. It was the torpedoes that really made the difference, not the shields. Well, Borg cubes are (IIRC) 28 cubic kilometers of high-tech assimilating death machine (or a little over 3 km on a side). Voy...

The impression from WotW, with the Klingons using DS9 as a staging point, rather than a system within the Empire seems to suggest that they and the Cardassians do not have a common border. Alternatively, they may have been staging the attack from there to give their excuse of defending the AQ more ...

Mikey - so the data is merely incomplete, rather than incorrect? No worries then. Of course, the ability for one ship to hit the exact section of shield, while both ships (or even just one) are maneuvering at around a thousand Gs is a bit interesting. Shran - you are right. In space, dissipating hea...

I uploaded the xls spreadsheet (made via OpenOffice) here . Please PM me the changes you recommend, so this thread doesn't get cluttered. For comparisons between larger and smaller ships, I go with the following: Assuming two identical hull shapes, the larger will have: 1) more volume to surface are...

First, thanks to all the welcomes. I'll admit my 'nitpic' would not be possible without all the work to gather the information, so I'd also like to say thank you to the Webmaster himself, Mr. Graham Kennedy. Second, you are probably right, that the Fighter is a short-range vessel. But the ratio is s...

Noticed some things weird about the Dominion ships. From the main site: DITL Home -> Fleets -> Dominion -> (select the ships) For the Dominion Attack ship, it has the following stats: Mass: 2,450 tons Weapons: 8,750 TW Shields: 256,500 TJ The Dominion Battlecruiser: Mass: 4,215,000 Weapons: 75,000 T...