how close are we to star trek

[YorkshirePud]

getting there!

[theENIGMATRON]

Billions of years off!!! lol

But no serious.

For a ship of that size we would need proper protection against space dust.

1 bit of space dust caught in gravity, can go through one side of a space ship and out the other. Built up of oxygen would rip the thing to bits!!

To travel around in space it would need to be more reinforced.
And we cannot go heavier as there is nothing 100% developed and approved for new energy / fuel / rockets to get that much weight out of our atmosphere.

Also they would need to develop a Gravitational Force so your not always floating,
Makes Calcium and that very hard to stick to bones so you slowly deter-ate without it

[YorkshirePud]

Ah dave you are reffering to the navigational deflector for space debris

[theENIGMATRON]

And for that a 100 billion years off lol!!!

The idea for a starship shield may not be completely beyond the realm of reality tho.

In 2008, Cosmos Magazine reported research into creating an artificial replica of Earth’s magnetic field around a spacecraft to protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic rays, But this is just a reflector of harmful Rays, Not a deflector for Space Debris or dust.

British and Portuguese scientists used a mathematical simulation to prove that it would be possible to create a "mini-magnetosphere" bubble several hundred meters wide, possibly generated by a small unmanned vessel that could accompany a future NASA mission to Mars.