Don't even bother trying to eject the warp core...damn thing never works.
Deflectors to maximum?
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Deflectors deflect small grains of dust away from the ship while the ship is moving.
Sensors detect the small grains of dust particles and then informs the deflector to direct its energy along certain vectors.
Shields are an energy projection around the ship at various frequencies to keep energy and kinetic weapons from reaching the hull.
Shields to full would have been the correct command.
If Rikers fleet had in fact raised deflectors instead of shields to full, the Romulans would have reacted and Admiral O would have given the order to fire on the unshielded ships.
The Romulans however, would have been able to determine if the ships in Rikers fleets had in fact had raised shields or defectors to full in order to adjust their disruptors for either shield damage or hull damage.
Rickers Freudian Slip was probably meant as slight distraction to make O think that Ruler might have had something else up his sleeve.
Sensors detect the small grains of dust particles and then informs the deflector to direct its energy along certain vectors.
Shields are an energy projection around the ship at various frequencies to keep energy and kinetic weapons from reaching the hull.
Shields to full would have been the correct command.
If Rikers fleet had in fact raised deflectors instead of shields to full, the Romulans would have reacted and Admiral O would have given the order to fire on the unshielded ships.
The Romulans however, would have been able to determine if the ships in Rikers fleets had in fact had raised shields or defectors to full in order to adjust their disruptors for either shield damage or hull damage.
Rickers Freudian Slip was probably meant as slight distraction to make O think that Ruler might have had something else up his sleeve.
Late to the party...
In a lengthy memo re ST2 Roddenberry went into some detail on the difference between forcefields/shields and deflectors. Gene's feedback was about the Reliant attack in TWOK, where he postulates one idea for how Kirk could be portrayed as not be stupid enough to leave the shields down and yet still be lured into a position where the Enterprise is vulnerable. It's an interesting glimpse into how he (at that time) saw how the Enterprises' defenses worked. I'm not going to offer any opinion on how consistent it is with TOS.
Excerpt from memo to Harve Bennett from Gene Roddenberry dated Sept. 2, 1981, page 4.
[...] However, we can keep Khan's treachery
alive by doing something we often did in the series, i.e., playing
the starship's “protective armor" as consisting of the basic
protective forcefields which surround the entire vessel in times of
emergency, plus the more localized ultra-high energy deflectors
which are even more powerful but create an enormous drain on ship's
power.
In putting up forcefields or protective forcefields or forcefield
shields (whatever you prefer to call them), starship Enterprise is
protected unless the other vessel is allowed to get in too close
where a point blank concentrated phaser strike could rupture the
forcefield protection (which is why the ship has the heavier
deflectors for just such protection in critical battle situations).
Now, this allows Khan to use his cleverness and tricks to steadily
get in closer and closer, perhaps even using a transmitted comment
from Chekov to put Kirk off guard. Then at the last split second,
Kirk sees what is happening, but it is too late to get the powerful
deflectors into place, and the Enterprise is heavily damaged just as
described.[...]
alive by doing something we often did in the series, i.e., playing
the starship's “protective armor" as consisting of the basic
protective forcefields which surround the entire vessel in times of
emergency, plus the more localized ultra-high energy deflectors
which are even more powerful but create an enormous drain on ship's
power.
In putting up forcefields or protective forcefields or forcefield
shields (whatever you prefer to call them), starship Enterprise is
protected unless the other vessel is allowed to get in too close
where a point blank concentrated phaser strike could rupture the
forcefield protection (which is why the ship has the heavier
deflectors for just such protection in critical battle situations).
Now, this allows Khan to use his cleverness and tricks to steadily
get in closer and closer, perhaps even using a transmitted comment
from Chekov to put Kirk off guard. Then at the last split second,
Kirk sees what is happening, but it is too late to get the powerful
deflectors into place, and the Enterprise is heavily damaged just as
described.[...]
The meteoroid beam has not deflected it.
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