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No, they purposefully fly over to look at those things, so that the entire crew can say "oooooooh, pretty!"
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I tried to figure this one out some time ago for a Tech Manual I did.
Reasons for not being able to fire:
A - Too much power demand (Chang had two warp cores in one hull - useful for an ambush vehicle - but not practical for chase due to bigger mass constraints).
B - Cloak interferes with targeting sensors - after all, if it bends incoming energy 'around' the vessel - ait might presumably reflect outgoing energy (heat signature etc.) back in towards the vessel. The BoP could 'see' via gravitic sensors, but at poor resolution.
C - Cloak interferes with weapons fire. As above, but with disrupter energy reflected back to Bop (or just absorbed by cloak - which after all is an adjunct of the shields). I don't see how this would affect torpedoes. Actually, in Generations, didn't the Duras sisters fire out from a cloaked BoP?
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B - Chang sure didn't have any problems plastering the Enterprise through its cloak, and it hit the Excelsior on its first shot, as well.
C - All the Duras sisters did was fire through the Enterprises shields and then the Enterprise triggered their cloak which coincidently dropped its shields....
D - I though Shinzons cloak was so perfect that it could be dropped just quick enough to fire and recloak without allowing the Enterprise to lock onto its position.
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"A phasing cloak could have been enough reason to write an interesting story or two."
What, like "The Next Phase"?
As if the Defiant had it and to give it a good reason to utilize it in an episode versus say, visiting a planet that incorporated talking or visiting people in a different time frame...
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Well, it was pretty clear that the Scimitar could partially decloak. So I think decloacking an ever so small part to be able to fire would be a reasonably logical explaination.
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quote:Originally posted by NightWing: Well, it was pretty clear that the Scimitar could partially decloak. So I think decloacking an ever so small part to be able to fire would be a reasonably logical explaination.
Possibly only the weapon's port decloaked on the Scimitar while firing. It is, after all, the only time we've seen a ship with several cloaking generators for various parts (that can be switched on or off too!)of the ship instead of one central unit.
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It's also entirely possible that both Valdore-type Warbirds have the same cloaking tech as the Scimitar and just didint use it whilr fighting so close to the Enterprise. Only one collision allowed per movie.
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