Admiral Breetai wrote:one would think since Asgard do use subspace that any research they do from borrowed tech would probably negate the need for hyperspace QSD was nearly doable post Dominion war on a POS scout ship...so with a little help from Terra's tiny friends and all might eliminate the power generation issues for Hyperspace
Generally, the anti-Trek side says something like the QSD was a near total failure, and only worked for a limited time under special conditions.
for the snake heads I think the UFP has the advantage of being much faster STL and more maneuverable with better firing archs I'd think a battle between a mothership and a GCS would be akin to a blue whale trying to fend off an orca more or less..not sure if there is that much of a fire power disparity between the two but if there is..just from what I saw during SG a fed ship can just buzz around the sucker all day peppering it and not really worry about getting nailed unless the captain gets stupid and gets too close
Ha'taks are not slow at all. Even the good old Prometheus was stated to be capable of achieving 110,000 mps.
Those ships have crossed an AU quite fast, both when Apophis came to Earth with his ships for the first time, and when his fleet started playing cast and mouse with SG-1 and their own Ha'tak in the Vorash system.
However, they don't seem to achieve those speeds with some warp trick.
As for firing arcs, Ha'taks are simply one of the best designs out there. There's not a single angle they can't aim at.
as for Fed med tech while it probably isn't anywhere near as advanced as the ancients or something it's by far more sophisticated than anything in SGU and technologies like retro viruses that grant obscene long life (granted it went out of control and killed all the grown ups but IIRC Mccoy cured it) and such things aren't alien to a Fed medical database they where advanced enough any ways to program a disease to kill what amounted to sentient breast implant gel (the founders) after all
If he cured it properly it would already be used after that. Chances that by curing the side effects, it totally nullified the main one as well.
Besides, the tech aboard Destiny is severely outdated - which is quite funny because the crippled ship was still taking dives into blue giant stars.
Oh well...
Even in Atlantis, the Terrans were largely stuck using whatever the Lanteans had decided to leave. That is, not much. They never had any advanced hand weapon for one, yet we know that at least two variants existed (the mike gun or ice cream cone and the more classical pistol).
There wasn't a single exploration drone available, although we know that from SGU, they had already the Kino technology.
There wasn't a single healing system that the Terrans could have used. All they were left with was a scanning machine, everything else was Earth-level medical stuff.
Not even one of those suits we saw the Vasir wear, which obviously were of Lantean design, and which existed as some older variant and found aboard Destiny.
Plus the Asurans, who simply copied all their tech from their progenitors, had biotech that could build real human bodies from scratch, molecule by molecule ("Ghost in the Machine"). The advantages of being able to build any cell and organ that way are quite obvious. Then they would transfer their minds into those bodies. The whole replicate of Atlantis made by rebel Asurans was populated that way.
I dont know if they'd be able to definitively cure the asgard or do so easily but working together maybe buy more time..for them to figure out whats what.
theres also the alternative of downloading the Asgard minds into a huge world computer or something..and then using holograms to interact so as to avoid any more cloning..mass conscience storing by ancient races is tech they did encounter before..and while they may not be able to backwards engineer it..sending the Asgard that way or giving them any reports and info on the stuff is doable
maybe jean Luc going with Thor to meet "kevin" or the organians to see if they'll help?
thoughts?
The Asgards have already stored their minds in computers and used time dilation technology. They could certainly buy some time, but I'm not sure how it will make any difference there, especially since they most likely already pushed their own tech to its limits (they'd be rather stupid not to do so, and we know that they do love to push their tech hard, a bit too hard in fact).
But they seem to have refused the idea of storing themselves into computers forever, preferring to blow up Orilla (which they had settled something like three years prior), along themselves.
Perhaps something due to some anti-bot bias after what the Replicators did to their civilization.
Their problem was so complex that they couldn't reverse anything, even when working with the in-stasis body of an 30K years older Asgard who didn't display the same deformities as the current ones did.
Then, due to plot fiat, they found a cure which was actually not one but they all got their flu shot and found that they were screwed. Writers erased them from SG-1 ("Unending").