^ He also must have developed transwarp transporting at some point, for Spock to be able to teach the technique to Scotty's younger self!
"Relics" The Finale
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***now locked up safely in a Dyson Sphere***
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Scotty wrote term papers?
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Sounds good to me.
Geordi said the transporter technology hadn't changed much in 80 years in this very episode.
Another thing that's odd is that the Senior Staff didn't hold a dinner in his honour like they've done with other special guests. And Scotty would have had more than enough opportunity there to spout about his past adventures especially being the centre of attention.
I've always assumed that the Ent-D knew of the Jenolan's shield frequencies and adjusted transporters to match.
^ That makes sense. We've seen examples of the fact that skilled transporter operators, who know the systems of the ship they are dealing with, can find ways to get through the shields. O'Brien was able to beam through the Phoenix's shields, for example. With a ship as old as the Jenolan, they probably had easy access to data on its shields and could have arranged a beam out through the shields.
If it's easy enough to beam through shields once you know the frequency, it'd be standard practice to beam through your own shields, wouldn't it? Yet it has often been a prominent plot point that you can't beam your away team back while your shields are up.
Punching through old shields with brute force seems reasonable, though.
I read a story about how Scotty was supposed join the cast of DS9, presumably as the engineer.
I looked at the episode too, and did noticed, the crew seemed a little impatient and condescending.
At the time I first watched it, their reactions seemed normal, but now on retrospect....
There's one problem/question I'm having understanding this concept;
The Dyson sphere, was a hollow sphere built around a star, with people living "on the interior surface".
Is this model really practical?
I see one big station like structure, no natural structures, no sunrises, beaches, or seasons....
correction; I do see what looks like an atomsphere, but it would seem like it would be inverse, following the shape of the sphere....
I looked at the episode too, and did noticed, the crew seemed a little impatient and condescending.
At the time I first watched it, their reactions seemed normal, but now on retrospect....
There's one problem/question I'm having understanding this concept;
The Dyson sphere, was a hollow sphere built around a star, with people living "on the interior surface".
Is this model really practical?
I see one big station like structure, no natural structures, no sunrises, beaches, or seasons....
correction; I do see what looks like an atomsphere, but it would seem like it would be inverse, following the shape of the sphere....
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Right, which is why my speculation is that it's not based on the frequency. The shields are probably designed to deflect or scatter transporter signals, even if the correct frequency is used. My thought was how we've seen skilled transporter officers, like O'Brien, manage to get through older or less sophisticated systems when they know a minor flaw in the system. It also seems that certain types of sensor systems cause the shields to fluctuate for an extremely small window of time.
For example, in "The Wounded," O'Brien mentions that the Phoenix is using a high energy system that causes a window of one fiftieth of a second every 5.5 minutes. He is able to beam through that.
I would therefore suspect that the Jenolan, being an older ship, had a system that the Enterprise computers would be very familiar with, and that they were able to use such a "loophole" to beam Geordi and Scotty through.
I actually think that would have been a better ending!!
