Topic: $$$ Watch your technological step! ["Minefield" Spoilers]
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hmm.. i just thought of something.
In the novel Final Frontier, Diane Carey's Romulans place a mine on the hull of the Enterprise that needs to be pried off carefully by officers in spacesuits, its set to go off if detached.
handy little coincidence, continuity wise.
oh well.
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The cloaked mines do make the cloaked self-replicating mines from two centuries in the "future" slightly less impressive. *shrug*
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Yes, that whole bit where the mine notices its next-door neighbour's just been destroyed and immediately sets about replicating a replacement, that was a corker.
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Yeah, Federation mines that explode, I thought they were supposed to be the bad guys.
Can you imagine a Starfleet ground-based minefield? Probably just increasingly-stern warnings not to go any further or else ("or else" not specified) before, in the end, saying that the enemy have gotten through the minefield so they migh as well just carry on, but their ambassador will be receiving a strongly-worded letter of complaint next week.
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EXT: A gloomy field stretches out in front of a Starfleet camp. A Cardassian soldier creeps slowly across it. Suddenly, something leaps up out of the sandy soil and attaches itself to his ankles.
"Hi! I'm a Starfleet Mk. IV Anti-personnel Device! It looks like you're trespassing in Federation territory."
"Uh oh! It looks like you're carrying a Cardassian "Cobra" disrupter rifle. Those aren't allowed within a one point five kilometer radius of Federation facilities. Sorry!"
A wirelike extension slips out from the device and embeds itself in the Cardassian's rifle, causing it to spark and short out.
"Uh oh! You've moved another two meters into Federation territory. Pursuent to General Order 3467, you'll have to be removed. Please remain calm."
The device hums a bit as its antigrav generator kicks in, and the Cardassian is carried away at a brisk but safe speed.
"Thank you for stepping in a Starfleet Restricted Area! Please accept this copy of the complete works of Surak. Best read on any style of PADD. Have a nice day!"
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Tricobalt explosives?? Weren't those very new in the TNG era?? As in, made for destroying the Borg? And didn't just two of those destroy the Caretaker?
I know you can determin the yield of the buggers, but this is ridiculous!
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Naah. Tricobalt weapons (or computer simulations thereof) were used to "destroy" Kirk's ship in TOS "A Taste of Armageddon". Since the Eminians were just another society to be completely subdued and re-educated by a trademark Kirk speech'n'fisticuffs, we got the impression that Eminian weapons tech wasn't all that advanced, either.
The weapons in VOY might have been about as effective as a photon torpedo. Or then slightly less so. It did take two of them to destroy the array, and that through a series of internal explosions instead of instant vaporization. One torp could have destroyed the similarly sized Lysian command center in TNG "Conundrum".
VOY "The Voyager Conspiracy" muddles up the issue somewhat, by listing the tricobalts as "illegal subspace weapons". But that doesn't mean they are supertech. they could be illegal because they represent a "dirty", primitive technology that produces unacceptable collateral damage.
And we've never heard of the tricobalts being used against the Borg, or developed for that purpose. Nor the q-torps or regenerative phasers or any other weapons system, really - save for the original, failed Defiant.
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Tricobalt explosives first appeared in the hands of those bothersome Vendikarians (or was it the Eminarians?) in "A Taste of Armageddon," 100 Trek years and 23 or 24 real years before the Borg showed up.
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Weren't those very new in the TNG era?? As in, made for destroying the Borg? And didn't just two of those destroy the Caretaker?![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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