Would this work as an internal defense.

[Vanyel]

From time to time our heroes ships get boarded. The Captain usually sounds general quarters (I think that's the right term?) and evacuates the area where the borders are. Force fields are put up sealing them in an area or tries to at least.

What if the ships crew did this.

Boarding parties force their way in through the hull or transport in through a hole in the shields and are at deck 16 section C.

Non security personnel flee the area.

Force fields could be set up to try to contain the boarders, but couldn't the force fields also be charged? A charge strong enough to stun or kill?

That and security, while running to that area, could cut of the gravity plating to that section rendering everyone there weightless; then after about 10 seconds of weightlessness turn the plating back on at double strength and slam the boarding party hard to the floor. Once enough security arrives at the area they should be able to handle the stunned or injured boarders.

If the boards are able to withstand that just increase the gravity plating as far as they can go before it pulls the above deck down. This should either slow the boarders or crush them.

That, and all Jeffery's tube hatches or the hatch used in Nemesis could lock and need a access key, or code, to open.

Is that a possible way to deal with boarding parties?

Oh and Mods, if this is in the wrong forum, please move it.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

Force fields could be set up to try to contain the boarders, but couldn't the force fields also be charged? A charge strong enough to stun or kill?

They could, but they wouldn't. Terok Nor's security forcefields were lethal, but when Starfleet took over, they turned down the power on the forcefields. Starfleet doesn't use lethal force save in the utmost need. As for stunning forcefields-- It just isn't worth it. The ship can already release knock-out gasses to subdue intruders far more effeciently than trying to get them to walk into a forcefield they just watched ko their buddy.

That and security, while running to that area, could cut of the gravity plating to that section rendering everyone there weightless; then after about 10 seconds of weightlessness turn the plating back on at double strength and slam the boarding party hard to the floor. Once enough security arrives at the area they should be able to handle the stunned or injured boarders.

That's just plain sadistic. Again, we saw the crew occasionaly alter gravity in specific areas of the ship/station, (DS9's "Melora", for example) so we know it's possible. But, again, stun gasses are far more efficient and safer.

 

[Timo]

Assuming, of course, that the enemy is breathing the air.

McCoy and Spock were adamant that they could devise a chemical that would stun all oxygen-breathing species in "Spectre of the Gun", and I'm ready to take them for their word. That would certainly be chemically viable, as there's only a limited number of ways a creature can use oxygen to begin with. Something like that could be the ultimate anti-boarding gas.

But what if the intruder doesn't breathe oxygen? Anybody boarding a spacecraft could certainly be expected to be able to survive without breathing. And it is probably quite possible to protect oneself against phaser-style stunning, at least unless the stunner is ramped up to levels that would in turn kill many other kinds of enemy. It would seem there's no single technique that would nonlethally render boarders harmless. That is, unless one counts containment by impenetrable forcefields as such a technique.

Perhaps Starfleet could use a time-manipulation field of some sort, similar to what they have in their stasis chambers? That should be a truly universal way to stop or significantly slow down all types of enemy!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Space Cowboy]

That and security, while running to that area, could cut of the gravity plating to that section rendering everyone there weightless; then after about 10 seconds of weightlessness turn the plating back on at double strength and slam the boarding party hard to the floor. Once enough security arrives at the area they should be able to handle the stunned or injured boarders.

If the boards are able to withstand that just increase the gravity plating as far as they can go before it pulls the above deck down. This should either slow the boarders or crush them.

I'm fairly certain the mirror crew from Enterprise did something like this to a Gorn intruder on the Defiant in IaMD.

 

[Jack Bauer]

One thing I liked on Andromeda was hat if the ship was boarded the artificial gravity would be increased and the boarders would be pushed down and stuck to the deck. I always wondered why they never did this on TRek.

 

[Kryton]

Assuming, of course, that the enemy is breathing the air.

McCoy and Spock were adamant that they could devise a chemical that would stun all oxygen-breathing species in "Spectre of the Gun", and I'm ready to take them for their word. That would certainly be chemically viable, as there's only a limited number of ways a creature can use oxygen to begin with. Something like that could be the ultimate anti-boarding gas.

Assuming, of course, that the Melkotians really put our crew in a physical environment.

I believe it's a safe assumption, especially because of the "death and rebirth of Chekov", that the entire episode (outside of the beginning and ending) was essentially a mental construct. In fact, there's frankly no reason NOT to think as much.

No half-built buildings, no piano player...all of it was in the mind. And, IMO, THAT is what led Spock to solving the issue with his multiple mind-melds near the end.

 

[Vanyel]

That and security, while running to that area, could cut of the gravity plating to that section rendering everyone there weightless; then after about 10 seconds of weightlessness turn the plating back on at double strength and slam the boarding party hard to the floor. Once enough security arrives at the area they should be able to handle the stunned or injured boarders.

If the boards are able to withstand that just increase the gravity plating as far as they can go before it pulls the above deck down. This should either slow the boarders or crush them.

I'm fairly certain the mirror crew from Enterprise did something like this to a Gorn intruder on the Defiant in IaMD.

It's where I got the idea. Seems to make sense, increase or decrease gravity to stop boarders. And if you're in the middle of a battle, like during the Dominion War, and a group of Jem'Hadar have boarded using every trick-lethal or not-to stop the boarders would be a good idea.

 

[Timo]

Assuming, of course, that the Melkotians really put our crew in a physical environment.

Oh, we know that the environment wasn't physical - from the very fact that the anesthetic gas didn't work!

Since our heroes were dead certain that the real deal, made of real substances, would have knocked out a real person, I think we can accept that such an universal intruder control gas does exist in the Trek reality. It's just too bad that it doesn't work against non-oxygen-breathers.

Timo Saloniemi