PIC S3 Ships & Tech
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Or the 12 tribes of Israel
Or the 12 calendar months
Or the 12 Zodiac signs (not counting Ophiuchus)
Or the 12 calendar months
Or the 12 Zodiac signs (not counting Ophiuchus)
or how much energy can go through you if you try to short it and accidentally get to become ground.
i’d day electric shock.
By the way…an access panel INSIDE the cell? Really, Starfleet?!
I have this headcanon idea about what it feels like but I'm not sure how easy it is to explain. I imagine they feel very different to a solid surface and at the lowest setting a forcefield has that sort of "slippery" feeling of trying to force to alike magnetic poles together, and then it goes down a spectrum past "pleasantly tingly" through "pins and needles" to "agonising cramps and muscle spasms", depending on the power of the forcefield and how long you're in contact with it.
Drexer's diagrams for the Stargazer and Titan-A label the blue domes (that some people have referred to as 'impulse crystals' on older ships) as warp governors as well.
There is no wrong ways to do phasers. But we see a beam come from the rear of the Titan (or another ship using the same nacelle design) in a trailer.
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Ooh. Does that mean that the refit Constitution-class's "impulse defection crystal" was really the evolution of the NX-01's warp field governor? It was never confirmed to be anything to do with the impulse engine on screen, after all. Interesting.
Yeah, Impulse Deflection Crystal I think came Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. Probably because it's attached to the impulse engine on both the Miranda and Connie.
my bad then.He didn't open an access panel, he planted a device.
Well, sort of: even this photo isso dark that it could pretty much be anything!
Also…What happened to checking that your prisoners don’t have tools to escape?
It probably goes back to Probert. It's not just part of the impulse assembly on the Enterprise, it's also the upper terminus of the intermix shaft.We never saw enough of the Reliant's engineering system (except that it has one deck of vertical tube) to know if, say, it zig-zags to connect it's deflection crystal to the similar feature on the bottom of the ship.
Yep, it was Probert's name for the dome (though spelled "deflector crystal"). His idea was probably the same way Johnson described it, though, that it's "deflecting" warp power into the impulse drive. Still, no reason it can't be retconned (enough people call the "intermix shaft" the "warp core," for instance).
It'd be a pretty lousy forcefield-lockpick if it couldn't be concealed from a search.
Yet, we have devices now that can locate devices on a person's body, like our x-ray machines and the airport gates that people have to walk through. I would imagine that a more sophisticated, advanced culture would have even better means of detecting devices.
Of course Starfleet has an awful record on this topic. See when they let a whole disassembled destructor through, for example…
That would make for boring stories.
The DS9 ep Civil Defense had Dax get her hands burnt when a small forcefield went off to stop her tampering with the leftover counter-insurgency program that they'd unwittingly tripped.
Later that same ep, Kira makes reference to the Cardassian "neutralization emitters" having been removed because "we prefer our forcefields to be non-lethal".
Interesting. Had totally forgotten the comment about the neutralization emitters. Now i wonder about what they are (and do) and even more about the physics and characteristics of force fields and how they work.
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Since when has Starfleet Security ever worked? If it serves the drama of the story it will fail or succeed. Star Trek security tech does not keep up with what is actually possible with their level of technology.
Yeah, the security record of Starfleet is abysmal, nothing new there.
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They definitely scaled the ship up. So it looks like the shrapnel from the Eleos bounced around and up into the bottom of the saucer to tear into deck 11...
I think Starfleet needs to invent security cameras first before we start worrying about whole body scanners.
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