Rodent Wars Forum

Link to site: www.ditl.org
On-site description: "The purpose of this site is two-fold. Firstly, I want people to be able to use it as a reference guide. You can come to this site, read anything in yellow, and know that it comes directly from an episode or film. At least, to within the limits of my own accuracy - if you spot mistakes like this, please email and let me know. In the blue section, which is written from within a 20th Century context, the Lists and Series Guides sections are intended to be a useful reference guide to various aspects of the Trek universe."
Reliability: 5/10—Relies on speculation and dialogue too much, but brands itself as such. Not really useful at all as a source of analyses, but only of raw data. For example, his analysis of the Genesis Device comes up with an explanation that violates the laws of thermodynamics and relativity. Oh, so this device makes molecules go faster than light, and requires an insanely high amount of energy to do a negative amount of work?
     Another example is his claim that Trek deflector fields are immune to the effects of any laser. While this is in a page meant to be speculation, it still shows an ignorance of scientific principles. Just because Picard said once that "lasers won't even penetrate our navigation shields" doesn't mean that no laser will! He was referring to the weaponry of a tiny alien vessel. Kennedy apparently thinks that a multi-terawatt laser (or even anything with the word "laser" in its name) would be completely neutralized by the deflectors of a tiny shuttlecraft! His explanation, in an attempt to explain this apparent violation of the laws of thermodynamics:
     "This is due to the trans-static flux effect which occurs as a by-product of the deflection process; when laser light impinges on a deflector field, the effect creates a small portal into subspace, causing the laser beam to pass harmlessly into this domain. As the beam is not subspace encased, it will re-emerge into normal space within a few milliseconds, putting it several hundred light seconds away. Since the beam never actually impacts on either the deflector shield or hull the power of the attack is irrelevant to the effect."
     Okay, so how does that technobabble explain that we can see the ship when it's at warp? Shouldn't all light do likewise and never be reflected?