If a stationary target is moving then so is the shooter.
If a stationary target is moving then so is the shooter.
Scotty : That’s what I’m talking about! How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a... like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer’s prized beagle.
James T. Kirk : Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
Scotty : I’ll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I don’t know, I do feel guilty about that.
Scotty : Except, the thing is, even if I believed you, right, where you’re from, what I’ve done - which I don’t, by the way - you’re still talking about beaming aboard the Enterprise while she’s traveling faster than light, without a proper receiving pad.
Scotty : [to Keenser] Get off there! It’s not a climbing frame!
Scotty : [back to Spock Prime] The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse.
[Spock writes on a paper]
Scotty : What’s that?
Spock Prime : Your equation for achieving transwarp beaming.
Scotty : [to himself] He’s out of it
Scotty : [reads the equation] Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of SPACE as the thing that was moving!
Interesting parallel, don’t you think?