Ok, where to start... first, g99, star trek pales in comparison to Star Wars, in that its aliens are more beleivable, and their ships dont enlongate comically when entering "warp drive" or some such nonsence. Their shipbuilders havent even thought up the idea of using fighters, and i find it unlikely that no species, of all those that they encounter, have thought this up. Anyway, enough of my badmouthing that putrid squandery of human resources.

Jediblade, i too have read that book, and they got it pretty much right, so far as I can see. I wonder if you have read the Bounty Hunter Chronicles(this name may be incorrect, or i may be quoting the wrong book), in which Boba Fett is chasing a youth through an asteroid field. In that chapter, the youth uses a plate that films the space on one side, and plays it on the other, so anyone that looks at it sees the goings-on on the other side, making the ship "invisible" from that angle. The only problem is that this would have to be done at all angles in a fight, so a ship cirling the cloaked one would always see sides that were displaying the opposite side. i also beleive that the ship would still be giving off other receiveable signs, i.e. it only works visually.

B.t.w. wasnt that cloaked ship you mentioned in the original post destroyed by an asteroid that it couldn't see coming?

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