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Ah, so someone from the showroom down on Earth tried that little "fly a car an incredibly stupid distance into a small opening" routine. Picard's middle age crisis must be catching.
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Well that settles that, then. In a bizarre coincidence, the thread about the Enterprise's nipple is discussing the exact same thing as this one.
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I can confirm that the ion pod pic is not from Mr Scott's, or from the FJ blueprints. Could be anything, really - but probably not "official" in any way.
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Just a theory (wild-assed guess). Postulate that an ion storm's radiations are hazardous to the normally-used sensors aboard a starship (similar to EMP).
A starship which had to traverse a storm might deploy a sensor pod specially designed to survive said radiations - and easily replaced when burned-out.
Possibly an science-trained officer would have to 'babysit' said sensors because of this interference.
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