Physicist proves famous ‘Star Trek’ combat strategy works

Technically, a 'Picard Maneuver' would generate more than two images of the USS Enterprise. Key takeaways Powered by Yahoo Scout. Yahoo is using AI to generate key points from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Physicist Nickolas de Aguiar Alves determined that an early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation demonstrates an aspect of the theory of relativity even better than its creators likely anticipated. In the episode "The Battle," Captain Jean-Luc Picard's famous "Picard Maneuver" would technically result in three images of the USS Stargazer, not two, due to the ship accelerating twice during the gambit. While traveling faster than the speed of light is widely considered impossible, the underlying principles of Picard's Maneuver hold up to expert scrutiny and provide an excellent scenario to ponder while studying theoretical physics.