[TheOldLady]

So, that whole “inertial dampeners” thing is straight out the window? Perhaps they would still be useful (with some performance improvements) in case of an attack by aliens on our starship?

Every time the Enterprise is hit with a phaser, the bridge crew gets tossed around, or at least jostled as in “Next Generation,” and the inertial dampeners fail miserably even though they work great for warp acceleration.

Just sayin’. ;-)

[tet68]

So, that whole “inertial dampeners” thing is straight out the window?

As anyone who has put a dry diaper on a baby can tell you.

[Dead Corpse]

Not necessarily. If you can manipulate the space/time field around your ship to get you from point A to point B, you should also be able to sue that same field as both a defensive shield and an offensive weapon.

Warp the space around you and weapons fire slides right around you. Make that edge as highly defined as you can and slam it in to an opponent causing high density gravity sheer through the middle of their ship/station/orbital weapons platform.

If you get hit, you get hit. You are going to bounce around.

Sci-fi Author Greg Bear, in his book Anvil of the Stars, took string/field theory a notch higher by assuming that fields could literally "hold" atoms in place. Even to he point of flipping matter to anti-matter, high speed acceleration, etc... If we can "warp" space/time, the next step would be something along those lines...

[skinkinthegrass]

So, that whole “inertial dampeners” thing is straight out the window?
Perhaps they would still be useful (with some performance improvements) in case of an attack by aliens on our starship? according to the script; it's a localized.. just on the edges.. not to worry.
yah gotta fixs within an hour or it becomes a movie or mini-series. (horror! :)