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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Futurama Guy: [qb]The second thing is just the note about it taking 6 seconds to complete a transport, regarding the time needed to decloak, transport, and recloak. Being not so tech-minded in such manners, I never understood the complications in firing or beaming while cloaked. The shields aren't up so it shouldn't be a problem, but it is, why is that? Obviously Chang & Co. overcame it 80years earlier in TUC for his BoP, why hasn't that been overcome again? [/qb][/QUOTE]Technically... the best way I've heard it explained is that when the cloak is up it is just like having the shields up. The cloaking device either uses the same shield waveguides [TOS... dunno which episode... Spock swoons that Romulan commander] or it's own similar waveguides to take the field from the generator to the outside of the ship. It is [near] impossible to transport through shields because the graviton field and subspace field which make up the shield will scramble the matter stream... for the same reason with a cloaking device which assumably uses a subspace field to encapsulate a vessel and allow sensors to pass through [or absorb them] and allow background radiation to pass through [otherwise just follow the blank space]. The cloaking devices strong subspace field would disrupt the matter stream thus making transport dangerous. Fire while cloaked is another matter entirely. First off to be completely cloaked the ship would have to have all of it's ports covered with these waveguides so that the cloaking field is complete so to fire you have to open these port covers and expose yourself slightly. Secondly, when you do fire, no matter what it is, detection becomes very easy for the same fact that you just follow the trajectory. The cloaked ship can move after firing, but once you're general location has been made sensors can be trained to look for differences in the background radiation, stars, power levels... etc etc--- it's easy to track them once you have them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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