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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I'm rather sure Keogh evacuated all the nonessentials. Dax and Keogh clearly had some kind of a personal history of distrust. Perhaps Dax really believed Keogh would waste lives if not reminded of the alternatives. But later, in the battle, we hear Dax suggest shield rotation to Keogh, and he replies that OF COURSE he has already done that. Perhaps Dax simply was in the habit of always pointing out the obvious to Keogh to annoy him, instead of actually thinking that Keogh would needlessly risk the lives of the "nonessentials". As for ramming shielded targets... We saw in "The Hunted" that some solid objects will bounce off the shields, but the "object" there was a minuscule escape pod. Riker and Worf have both considered ramming a Borg cube with their starships, but then again the Borg have weird shields that sometimes let shuttlecraft pass while deflecting weapons fire. DS9 may have withstood the ramming hit of a Hideki, but the station did have mightly shielding and in some battles shrugged off weapons fire that would probably have shredded a Galaxy class ship. And the station in "The Maquis" did weather the proximity explosion of the Bok'Nor right next to one of the pylons, well inside the outer shield perimeter, and in a situation where shields weren't raised beforehand. So we don't have good yardsticks here. The Klingon ships that were rammed could have been shielded, shieldless, or partially shielded, depending on Klingon arrogance or preceding battle damage. Even the Odyssey might have survived the ramming if not for the piece of debris that hit the nacelle - one of the shortcomings of using models for VFX is that it's difficult to show damage, and the initial hit to the engineering hull fails to show believable damage if you go through the scene frame by frame... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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