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Topic ID: 150
Message ID: 94
#94, RE: No Harrington-novel Tech. Deal.
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-19-01 at 07:38 PM
In response to message #91
>The 'offical' range of a photon torpedo in Star Trek is up to
>3,500,000 km.

Hee hee. Despite the fact that we've never seen them employed successfully at a range greater than about 800 feet. :)

But then, my favorite Star Trek space battle is still Khan's ambush of the Enterprise in Star Trek II, and that was fought at a range of about eight feet. So I'm certainly not complaining.

I try not to get too hung up on the numbers in UF. It's not meant to be anything like hard SF, after all.

--G.
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