Worked in Deep Space 9!
shareGiven the fact that those spaceships fly a thousands of miles per hour and should ussually pass it in a few seconds and given the fact that a ship can fly in muliple directions (you can't just place one wall otherwise they can just fly above or below it) means you you need a gazillion amount mines to cover a fully fuctional minefield.
Also the universe is an enormously or infinite place, the odds that somebody will actually fly past the spot you just happend to put a minefield is like 1 to a 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (well you get the picture).
Didn't they try to plug this hole by making them magnetic mines?
Really? Well, then why did I do it? Huh? 'Cause I did it! Riddle me that!
...given the fact that a ship can fly in muliple directions (you can't just place one wall otherwise they can just fly above or below it)...Every time there was a blockade-in-space of some sort in a Star Trek episode, I had that thought. share
Worked in Deep Space 9!
Seeing the mine field didn't necessarily make it pointless. Most electrified fences will usually have a warning on it that touching it will electrocute you. The message essentially comes down to- stay out.
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Well there were the chompy-crushy things, now that was pointless, but hey it was in the original show!
Give the Thermians credit for accuracy.
The Thermians touched on this when they were talking in the Limousine. Apparently there was a HUGE war a few thousand earth years ago and it was a leftover.
Space is huge, but if you are trying to defend a small territory in space, a magnetic minefield could be feasible. The purpose of a minefield is not to destroy an enemy but to divert him through a particular portion of territory that is not advantageous to him strategically.
a minefield in space would defend something within it, not beyond it
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It only worked in Deep Space Nine because it was placed around a natural chokepoint--the wormhole entrance, which isn't that large. But otherwise, a minefield in space is pretty stupid,
shareThe minefield was a leftover of an interstellar war between 2 powers, both long since gone. Mines are nasty things, people are dying daily from forgotten mines in various places of the world.
In Stargate SG-1 there was a minefield episode too, space mines are always good plot devices.
in context of Galaxy Quest im not sure if it makes sense as we dont have enough information ,but minefields in SF are very common usually their used to mine gateways/wormholes that are used for interstellar travel or places where an attacker has no other option to go ..on tv DS9 used one very effectively surprisingly Babylon5 didn't but it is what it is i suppose...in books Alastair Reynolds David Weber and Jack Campbell use minefields a lot especially Campbell
Yes, I think it definitely works. It adds to the whole "eye opening" saga of humans on Earth being let in on the universe at large. Eloquently stated by Justin Long’s character, “I knew it.” Humanity may not have experienced any of this larger history of the universe, but mines in the middle of space, left over from an ancient war, certainly plays into the revelation and possibility that a homeless band of aliens could rebuild their civilization based on Earthly historical documents.
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