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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
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Warp bubbles don't take you out of normal space time (that's some hyper space bull****). Warp bubbles contract the space ahead of the ship, and expand the space behind it. The ship stays "Still" within the warp bubble, and the space they are in moves, so they aren't technically moving faster than light. But they are still in "normal space". They can run into stuff, and stuff can run into them. So weapons would still work.
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Hey now, we all cool nerds in here
But- I disagree. That is how it has been posited several times in conversation in the series, and how Alcubierre theorized it could work irl, but the explanation given in TNG: Remember Me and then later depicted in several episodes of Voy and other series, indicates that the warp field creates a bubble of separate space time which then enables the mentioned compressing of spacetime in front of the vessel.
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It creates a self enclosed geometry of space time. If so, how could anything in regular space time (phasers, torpedoes, any matter) intersect it?
Subspace weapons maybe but IIRC those are banned by treaty.
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First photo failed so here are some others:
