10-05-2022, 10:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2022, 04:33 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
If the recorder was ejected before the Valiant exploded its direction and speed would be determined by the force of the ejector and the direction in which it was ejected. Its housing would be hit by heat and radiation from the exploding ship, but there's no blast wave from explosions in space, so its direction would only be changed by any debris that hit it or anything it ran into. The inertia of the ship travel and the force of the ejector would be much, much less than that of the explosion, so it wouldn't be moving as fast as the debris and wouldn't go as far in 200 years.
If the recorder wasn't ejected before the Valiant exploded, it would be the same as any another piece of debris and 200 years later would be as far from the blast point in some random direction as any of the other bits. It would be sheer dumb luck that it survived the explosion and ended up in the Enterprise's path.
If the recorder wasn't ejected before the Valiant exploded, it would be the same as any another piece of debris and 200 years later would be as far from the blast point in some random direction as any of the other bits. It would be sheer dumb luck that it survived the explosion and ended up in the Enterprise's path.