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Deflector dishes

whisky

whisky

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I mean they are ok for firing pulses of energy, and launching borgs into space with a witty one liner, but did we ever actually see a deflector dish deflect anything?








Yeah this was the thread I was thinking about then forgot, totally not worth it.
 
The Paradise Syndrome and uhh.... that's about it I think.

They were constantly getting modified to do something cool as you said. TPS is the only time I recall the deflector actually being used to deflect something.

Though the deflector array is constantly working to deflect micro meteors and space debris so it's always deflecting as a matter of normal procedure.
 
I suppose they're deflecting microscopic particles of space debris all the time but it's too small to see?
 
Yeah I thought of the paradise syndrome too, only as I recall, it never managed to actually deflect it.

The enterprise seemed to fly pretty well without a deflector dish at the end of FC, hope Picard didnt end up with a penny sized meteor through his forhead on the way back to starfleet.
 
Yeah the deflector dish basically stops anything less than a phaser or a photon torpedo (there was an episode of TNG where some ship only had lasers, and they just bounced off the navigational deflector).

I believe the Borg were only building on the main particle emmiter of the Enterprise-E's dish, which I guess would mean that when it was detatched the Enterprise would not have been able to emit any full beams out of the dish, but I wouldn't assume it effected the main navigational defector. Also, as no one is actually reading this far into this post full of technobabble, I love you Wacky. I always have.

And that's what I think!
 
Aww, shucks.
 
(there was an episode of TNG where some ship only had lasers, and they just bounced off the navigational deflector).
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Conundrum.

I assume the same. The full deflector array is inside the ship. Why doesn't anyone ever profess their love for ME. :(
 
I remember the Bridge crew being all snobby and laughing at the feeble lasers.
 
For a throw away episode it sure did create a lot of pointless arguments between the Wars vs Trek crowd as well.


SEE LASERS DON'T DO NUFFINK TO TREK SHIPS!

THEY WERE NOT TURBO LASERS NOOB!

BLAH BLAH DIE.
 
Why would Star Wars and Star Trek be fighting anyway?
 
People get bored?
 
I think they'd just have a massive orgy of sex and deathsticks.
 
Reverse the polarity of this thread!!!!!!!!!
 
DOCTOR WHO VERSUS STAR WARS VERSUS STAR TREK VERSUS BATTLESTAR GALACTICA VERSUS FIRELY VERSUS THUNDERBIRDS VERSUS SIMON AND THE WITCH.
 
I bet the new Battlestar Galactica could beat the old one, no problem.
 
The old one had lasers and Dirk Benedict
 
I sorta thought that the "main deflector dish" was simply the main source of power for the deflector shield, that's emitted out the dish --which you'd naturally want facing forward for reasons already mentioned-- and stabilized into the egg shape (that you see occasionally during battle scenes) by various deflector "nodes" or whatthefuckever all around the ship.

There are several Federation ship designs that appear to have no such dish (and I don't remember seeing any on alien ships,) most notably the Reliant. I kind of liked that they put one on the Kelvin in the upcoming film, opposite its single nacelle.
 
FUCKING OWNAGE
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Archibald Nixon said:
I sorta thought that the "main deflector dish" was simply the main source of power for the deflector shield, that's emitted out the dish --which you'd naturally want facing forward for reasons already mentioned-- and stabilized into the egg shape (that you see occasionally during battle scenes) by various deflector "nodes" or whatthefuckever all around the ship.
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You've solved Star Trek!
 
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