Runabouts have warp drive, so larger escape pods might also.
How did Ben and Jake escape Wolf 359?
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In The TNG episode The Emissary, K'Ehleyr transported to the Enterprise in a pod that was capable of Warp 9. I would think if it were possible to build a pod capable of Warp 9, there should at least be an escape pod capable of warp 1.
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Well, there's only two possibilities: either the Enterprise's sensors were faulty and the pods were still there, or the pods were gone by the time the Enterprise arrived on the scene. The first scenario doesn't really make sense. Besides the fact that there's no reason why the sensors would be faulty, all they had to do was look out a window or the viewscreen to see if the pods were still there. And they weren't. So that leaves the second scenario, which would only make sense if the pods either had the ability to warp away, or they were all collected by another ship and escaped that way.
Wreaked starships were small to the naked eye, something the size of a suburba bedroom would be invisible.
There’s such a thing as increasing the magnification on the viewscreen.
Its amazing that she could make a child, after all that radiation was pumped into her.
She should have been sterile and dying,
Then why would she lie about Alexander?
I assumed that the ship carrying her was traveling at warp 9, and the pod is just designed to act as a warp sustainer after being launched at speed. However the episode says she left from a starbase. Although I suppose a slightly more convoluted launch utilizing a starship wouldn't really come up in conversation.
The probe was practically a torpedo.
Spock's corpse fit into one of those fine.
I'm not sure what the rush was.
100 year old disrupters wouldn't be able to frazzle (then) modern shields, on even civilian bases and ships.
Look how well the entire Federation did against a fricking mining ship from 120 years upstream in Star Trek 2009.
Meanwhile modern phasers would just elegantly go between the Klingons clunky shields, even if Picard didn't know the ships shield frequencies, and prefix codes, from historical records.
Spock's corpse fit into one of those fine.
I'm not sure what the rush was.
100 year old disrupters wouldn't be able to frazzle (then) modern shields, on even civilian bases and ships.
Look how well the entire Federation did against a fricking mining ship from 120 years upstream in Star Trek 2009.
Meanwhile modern phasers would just elegantly go between the Klingons clunky shields, even if Picard didn't know the ships shield frequencies, and prefix codes, from historical records.
Starfleet likes to overcomplicate things. They put a setting on the escape pods to mask life signs, just in case the enemy is left in possession of the battlefield. Sisko and Jake turned it on, and the Borg didn't fire because they didn't want to waste their ammunition on an empty escape pod firing by accident. So Sisko and Jake crash-landed on a desert planet and then were gone before the Borg figured out that they survived.
I read the whole things as an ANH parody. It made me smile.
These aren't the drones you're looking for.
Yes, you were right in that killing 39 ships would be going after a non-threat, but I did not mean literally blocking the cube, I meant more like trying to stop the cube from getting to Earth or slowing it down by dealing damage to it.
But the 1701-E, the flagshippiest flagship that ever shipped the fleet's flag*, didn't have warp-capable pods.
* bonus: try say that while munching a mouthful of graham crackers
Or perhaps she did, but those would have launched from the shuttlebay just like the Saratoga pods did, and the more expedient evacuation option there was to hop to Earth down below in sublight-only capsules.
There does seem to be a bit of a distinction there: when Picard abandoned the Stargazer, his crew drifted in "shuttles" rather than lifepods till reaching civilization again.
ObNitpick: the E-E never was credited with any flagshippery. The only Enterprise with that distinction was the E-D, and even she was the UFP flagship, not the/a Starfleet flagship, in dialogue (although she did tackle the fleet command job on occasion). For all we know, going from the E-D to the E-E was punitive action for Picard's negligence in losing the former, and a definite downgrade.
The thing there is that arranging 40 starships at a spot in space won't help in stopping anything - the Cube could simply fly around the formation. Or through it, as in ST:FC, if by some miracle of spacemanship the fleet managed to warp right into the path of the Cube at just the right moment, despite supposedly having inferior or at most equal speed and not the superior speed needed for such an intercept. Yet at Wolf 359, we see the Cube deliberately come to a stop and park itself next to the fleet, courteously offering the option of volunteering for assimilation.
Getting to Earth isn't the sole Borg concern, then. They keep on stopping, at Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, probably all the Sol sights, before finally proceeding to Earth. Taking careful care of lifepods would fit the picture,
Timo Saloniemi
There does seem to be a bit of a distinction there: when Picard abandoned the Stargazer, his crew drifted in "shuttles" rather than lifepods till reaching civilization again.
ObNitpick: the E-E never was credited with any flagshippery. The only Enterprise with that distinction was the E-D, and even she was the UFP flagship, not the/a Starfleet flagship, in dialogue (although she did tackle the fleet command job on occasion). For all we know, going from the E-D to the E-E was punitive action for Picard's negligence in losing the former, and a definite downgrade.
The thing there is that arranging 40 starships at a spot in space won't help in stopping anything - the Cube could simply fly around the formation. Or through it, as in ST:FC, if by some miracle of spacemanship the fleet managed to warp right into the path of the Cube at just the right moment, despite supposedly having inferior or at most equal speed and not the superior speed needed for such an intercept. Yet at Wolf 359, we see the Cube deliberately come to a stop and park itself next to the fleet, courteously offering the option of volunteering for assimilation.
Getting to Earth isn't the sole Borg concern, then. They keep on stopping, at Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, probably all the Sol sights, before finally proceeding to Earth. Taking careful care of lifepods would fit the picture,
Timo Saloniemi
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