quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Just beam the bridge crew into space. Or beam anestetic gas through the ship. Or just beam the air and all it's pressure off the ship. Or just beam everyone's skin off for a great psychological weapon when your enemies find their derilict ship... Or beam over 100,000 stinging insects....
Or dogs with bees in their mouths that when they bark, shoot bees at you?
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The Romulaqn singularities must need to containment fields to prevent them from disapating somehow into subspace- otherwise, the ship would collapse into the singularity when the containment field is breached in battle.
Mabye the singularity only exists in subspace? That would explain how they can move a singularity with their starship and it explains why the Voyager crew was so impressed by the subspace array's artificial singularity power source- that one was an actual tamed black hole in real space.
For weapons, it seems that subspace weapons are the way to go- the ol' "ubspace shockwave" seems to the the most destructive thing in Trek thus far.
...though a starship that could emit a really strong external containment bottle could use a solr flare as a narrowly aimed firehose o' destruction.
mmmm.....destruction.
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"the ship would collapse into the singularity when the containment field is breached in battle"
Seeing as how the black holes they carry are likely to only be a few atoms across, with the mass of one or two tall mountains, I think you're overestimating the power of gravity.
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Hmmm...could you have a black hole that small? It one of those "only because we know nothing about the subject matter" kind of things that could go either way.
If the singularity is only a few atoms across, how are they tapping it for power?
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Here's something: why cant the transporters be used as a defensive weapon?
They already onvert matter and energy: why not use them to lock onto an incoming torpedo or energy beam nad disipate it?
Yah, I know that energy weapons should strike at lightspeed but that's obviously not the case in Trek.
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I think the primary of issues with using transporters in this way (against torpedoes, I don'y think you can beam a directed energy weapon) would be targeting, transporter range, and time to complete the transport sequence. If targeting weren't an issue, one would assume that torpedoes could be brought down with a ship's phasers. Also simple magnetic fields (Rura Penthe, Borg ships as in Best of Both Worlds) have been known to block or deflect transprter beams; it would seem a simple matter to fit a torpedo with a magnetic field generator to thwart attempts to transport it.
Perhaps these issues could be resolved in the 25th century, but probably not in the immediate future of late DS9/TNG movies.
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Or, why couldn't a self replicating mine be created that automatically stopped just short of the shielded ship, envelop it with clones and then simultaneously impact. That should cause havoc. Sorta like a MIRV on Viagra.
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quote: I don't think you can beam a directed energy weapon
Well, there are a dozen examples of our hero being beamed out as directed energy beams whizz through him. At times, heroes are also beamed out when they are discharging their own directed energy weapons. In none of those cases does the transporter room or the transporter operator gain extra ventilation holes...
So yeah, it's probably at least horribly difficult if not impossible to catch an energy beam in mid-flight. Not that the transporter operators in those cases would have been specifically trying, tho.
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