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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] The deflector could (in theory) act as a sensor by recording what was deflected by measuring the portion of the beam used to redirect a particular object. Kinda like a sonar ping. Deflectors do not re-direct large objects from a starship's path (derilect vessels, large asteroids etc.) so the deflector acting as a extremely long range collision sensor makes sense. Deflector/ Navigation shields (as shown on TWOK and TNG)are low-power shields that are always on and hug the ship's hull. That's why a ship is still protected while manuvering at impulse from debris outside the deflector's projected cone. Also why ship's sometimes pass through a debris field with no damnage. Riker once mentions that laser weapons can even not penetrate the Enterprise D's navigation shields (in Connundrum to be exact). In TWOK there are not always on and are activated just prior to the main shields coming on. Mr. Scotts seems to indicate that the deflector shields are a re-enforcment to the ship's SIF as well. These shields are generated by the Deflector Grid (like on the Connie Refit- see? a reason for those damn lines!) Shields are energy barriers that protect the ship in combat and in most cases will block both matter and energy from impacting the ship's hull. Gene used the term "shields" because "force fields" jsut sounds so gay. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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