Voyager Deploying Ablative Armor

[Roadracer987654321]

The USS Voyager was maybe the Coolest and the Toughest of all the Star Trek Starships. It got banged up hard on the show for 7 years straight. It came back Shining and all cleaned up. I think after it got home it would be put in storage for a year and examined. Then Overhauledand put back into service on " Safe ' Duty like Diplomatic Missions, Courier Duty for Diplomats, Ambassadors,Admirals,Etc It would aldso be used for Trade Negotiations but ones that are Non Hostile. She Paid her Dues

[fleia262]

True brooklyn560. If another were to make a direct phaser hit in a loaded torpedo bay, the torpedoes wou

[brooklyn560]

wouldnt the enemy just target the weapon ports? voyager needs to remove some of the armour to fire torps. and im pretty sure a direct phaser blast to a loaded torp launcher would be bad

[yamibalus]

@brooklyn560 The armor remains open just long enough to fire a Torpedo.... and as Voyager was moving the whole time while firing getting a perfect lock on an opening just large enough to fire a torpedo would be near impossible, size and the amount of time this opening is available make it a near impossible to hit target. As I said the weapon ports are not always open, only when firing really

[mockassi]

Ablative armor is the worst scifi joke everrrrr!!!!!!

[thehantavirus]

@atomikus37 in the same episode that acquired the armor technology

[LohenArc]

Why the fuck was this not implemented onto the enterprise-e???

It would have roflstomped the scimitar in 0.0000001 seconds

[GigawingsVideo]

@LohenArc Cost?

[LohenArc]

@GigawingsVideo Considering that voyager implements in little time whatsoever, and with their limited resources, cost is not an issue.

[GigawingsVideo]

@LohenArc To avoid entrapment and got this tech stolen?

[Xonx68]

@LohenArc I'm guessing if it was ever brought up on-screen, the characters would mutter something about "damned temporal prime-directive" and walk away shaking their heads.

[Dragonchaos666]

@LohenArc it was, but on a smaller scale, known as ablative strips along key sections of the hull. it wasnt installed to this degree because while the armor is active, energy based weapons can not be fired. plus, the transphasic torpedoes from this episode were kept under lock and key by star fleet command as a weapon of last resort against the borg.

[ascend501]

@LohenArc I heard there were legal issues with using it in the movie since it came from a TV show. Idk for sure, though.

[starflame34]

If it could use that AND shields, it would be practically indestructible.

[paralentor]

Isn't that Michael Keaton's bat mobile shielding?!?!

[tarbis1]

i bet when the borg saw that they couldnt damage voyager and that they were able to destroy their cubes easily they thoguht o bloody hell

[Jedidiah750]

This armor can still be used against other species besides the borg, even though they adapted to it! Think about it, in the first half of END GAME, Admiral Janeway's shuttle was going up against a big ass future Klingon Attack Cruiser, and it didn't even make a dent! Besides, with the Borg destroyed now there's no need to use it against them. But it might come in handy against other potential threats in the near future :)

[Freddran]

@Jedidiah750 IT wasn't obvious whether the borg was entirely destroyed or not. Unimatrix 1 and transwarp conduits -yes. But what about hundreds of cubes in delta quadrant?

[JD17555Jess]

0:08 :)

[KingDT2007]

reminds of batman (1989) when batman said sheilds and batmobile had shields

[TimLM1996]

Cool :)

[explorer47422]

EPIC

[lovelace64]

gay

[michaelfreudiger]

love how clear this video quality is, thank you!

[CommanderCarsten]

My intrepid class ship in STO can deploy armour even faster in that :P although it is still cool!

[Roadracer987654321]

Voyager Deploying it's Anti-Borg Armor is Very Cool.

After she got home the ship would have been parked and put under study and Quarantine for 6 to 9 months, maybe 1 years and pulled apart and reassembled for study. Then Given a Major System wide Overhaul in all her Components. Voyager would be given Light Courier Duty & Light Scientific Duty. Then called upon Sparingly to be used as a Secret Weapon for Crisis Situations. After her eventual early Retirement to a Museum,Voyager 2 will Launch

[Supermassively]

@Roadracer987654321 No.

[terrywest111]

@Roadracer987654321 Voyager 2? What is she a probe? LOL! You mean Voyager-A, Perhaps? :p

[Roadracer987654321]

@terrywest111 The Next Starship Voyager would be a Proven Sovereign Class Starship,Similar in Design but more Advanced than Admiral Jean-Luc Picard's USS Enterprise-E.

The Voyager-A should be commanded by Kathryn Janeway who was Promoted to Admiral in the Nest to last Trek Movie, I believe. The New USS Voyager, NCC-74656-A should Carry on the Tradition of " Boldly Going Where No Man , Or No One Has Gone Before........

Star Trek is in a Rest Phase of it's Cycle. More Stories Can Come....

[thehantavirus]

the borg already found away around the armor technology

[petujaymz]

@Ved0000

go suk quark's dik u rapist whore

wtf is ur problem bich

jeeeez

[Supermassively]

@petujaymz Are you fucking retarded?

[Ved0000]

Autovoyager, roll out!

[Xonx68]

The ultimate in starfleet bad-assery.

[thehantavirus]

TOO BAD in the end the Borg adapted to the armor so its practically useless agaisnt them now

[Pilkingtube]

@thehantavirus How do you adapt to armour?

[charmlighter]

@Pilkingtube omg here goes how geeky i am.. its like a hacker on the net.. they scan ur computer send a ping , when it pings back they know when to strike., adapting to voyagers armour would be simalar, they hit it with phasers and torpedos and scan each hit when they have found the right frequency that weekens the armour they adapt there weapons and start firing again

[Pilkingtube]

@charmlighter but, it's armour.. you don't adapt to steel.

[charmlighter]

@Pilkingtube you kinda do if the borg are constantly hiting it with a phaser right.. it will start to weaken sending back different signals to the borg ship they think oooooh that responded to that blast so lets keep it at that or crank up the voltage , pluss its all just fictional and a bloody good effect :)

[Pilkingtube]

@charmlighter that's all well and good.. but it's armour.

[charmlighter]

@Pilkingtube im just not gonna win u over am i lol ?

[Pilkingtube]

@charmlighter no :3

[Pilkingtube]

@charmlighter when it comes to my anatomy lessons at uni, or growing various things in petri dishes, i'm fine. When it comes to things like this, my brain goes fuzzy and I don't get it. Even still, i'm stubborn. :D

[charmlighter]

@Pilkingtube i suppose at the end of the day even i cant really explain it as there aint borg ships and there aint a voyager with ablaitive hull armour lol just something good to speculate and chat about .. who knows maybe one day if this technology does exist it will be explained to all of us :D

[AndyHUN92]

just imagen what would hapen if the borg gets her hands on this technology

[TheSolomenWreath]

The ablative armour on the Rhode Island (Harry Kims ship) is the best looking

[mrgears]

Inspired by the Batmobile no doubt

[jc13425]

@redemptionsdoom

Lol

[Imilko]

Its very cool but i have to wonder how the heck can they see ? lol its like ned kellys helmet without the eyes cut out of it.

[rkmugen]

@Imilko Transparent aluminum.... err... since it is the late 24th century, it is likely transparent "duranium" (quoting Commander Tucker from Enterprise)... or perhaps transparent "tetraburnium" (quoting Seven of Nine from that episode where they're all still designing the 1st Delta Flyer).

[shpshftr66]

Endgame was the best episode of the whole series. That moment of battle armour deployment gave me chills. I knew right then that older Janeway meant business and was going to get them all home.

[hunoftel]

@shpshftr66 Heck yeah! :D

[explorer47422]

omg the sound it makes is like music..

[Roadracer987654321]

Will we see this feature on the new Enterprise NCC-1701 of the new Star Trek Films?

without a Doubt the New Version of the NCC-1701 will encounter the Borg since it has some kind of Super Warp Drive

[rkmugen]

@Roadracer987654321 Even though the 2009 movie is as cool as it is, you'll have to consider that the story in the Abrams' film takes place 100-125 years before any alternate reality version of Picard and a possible alternate TNG-era crew would meet up with the Borg. With that said, it is unlikely that the Borg would make an appearance in the small slice of the Alpha/Beta Quadrant of the galaxy... where TOS & the 2009 movie takes place... in the 23rd century... in this new, alternate time-line.

[petujaymz]

Jean Luc Picard's such a fag.

[matchbox2022]

Wish my penis could do that......

well it expands at least.

[Gamezonemachinima]

i love that episode :d i hate the ship on the game star trek legacy tho its glitchy and its imposible to kill :(

[jkeelsnc]

Yes, the defiant had ablative armour and it was very effective. But it was not regenerative like this and certainly would not have reacted to borg weapons with the sound of a plink. The sound of BB's hitting a galvanized trash can in an alley. LOL

[NANOFORGE]

@jkeelsnc This was basicly the same sort of technology the Defiant used except 30+ years superior. If only the Federation had ships equipped with this technology during the Dominion War, One of those ships could of probally destroy a fleet. Hell a shuttle with this armor withstood punishment from 2 Klingon Battle crusiers with no damage.

[nephalos666]

@NANOFORGE there's a problem with this style of ablative armor though. All beam weapon systems on the ship are rendered useless while the armor is up. Only torpedoes may be fire which also requires dismissing the armor covering the torpedo launchers, risking a precision counter strike by enemy fire damaging or destroying said launchers.

[MrRuinaga]

@nephalos666 Yeah, That is the main flaw with the armor that is has appitures at the torpedo lauchers which can be targeted. Also apparantly this armor uses similar technology the Constitution class ship used in it's deflector shields and utilized a micro recplicator/Force field system which suggests how the Borg adapted to it.

[millenniumfalsehood]

@MrRuinaga I dunno . . .

It took three seasons of TOS and seven seasons of TNG before anyone thought to target the bridge, and even then it was the last command the Klingons ordered before their ship was blown to bits. Besides, the torp launchers already glowed without the armor, so they were never that stealthy to begin with.

How does it use similar technology to the Constitution class? They used energy shields, with little to no armor. The NX class used polarized hull plating though.

[Imilko]

@NANOFORGE Just like if 1 side had jets perfected in ww2.

[jkeelsnc]

Cool stuff. If Starfleet had this and the transphasic torpedoes much earlier then the Dominion war would've been over in days rather than months.  A defiant class warship with this would be a sight to see or the prometheus in MVAM mode with armour and transphasic torpedoes. Good bye dominion and anyone else that attempts to destroy the Federation. We will not be conquered. LOL

[Chulva]

I loved the last episode of Voyager cuz it really gave Star Trek a boost it needed in terms of tech and plot possibilities.

[warstomper]

so cool that armor

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

The whole idea of that ablative armor is just plain ridiculous. Riiiight, so they'll just 'grab' metal material out of nothing and throw it over the Voyager's hull.

Then again, it might have just been desperate storywriting.

[sapphyreseraph]

Actually it is an advanced form of a technology that was even used in the refit constitution. Check memory alpha. It uses replicator and transporter technology to "replicate" ablative armor constantly. Not much is known about it but the general idea is that as a molecule on the very edge of the shield is destroyed, it is instantly replicated back, as well as dissipating the energy.

[Kl4pp5tuhl]

I know, still, it's the most far fetched thing they've done that I can think of.

[sapphyreseraph]

Yeah, I'll admit that. I will admit also though, that I think it looks very cool :p Part of me wants to see it over Enterprise and other ships to see how it would look.

But to be perfectly honest as much as it's far fetched, I also feel it's "close-fetched"(?) Why did it take them so long to decide to do this? In the ep where voy creates "fake holo ships" I already had thought, "Why don't they create armor and weapons with holo safety off?" Imagine a huge holo ship ram power...

[stormcrow2]

i like that idea

[translucentorb]

@sapphyreseraph The regenerative ablative hull armor does use replicator tech, however the USS Defiant on DS9 had ablative hull armor it just regenerative.

In any event, its cool that they have shields on top of the armour, turns any ship into a war machine.

[LivesForJihad]

If I had this ship, I would take over the Federation! I would kill everyone!

[paulo9991]

muslim scum

[LivesForJihad]

LOL

[transdrole]

The best way to survive in unknown space is to build and implement the most advanced cloaking device you know how to build. The federation has the technology but is treaty bound to keep it off their ships.

[AldlarDurgil]

Well, there was the episode with the Pegasus, where some, ahem, "rebels" built the phasing cloak. It's locked in section 31.

[Perion]

batman called, he wants his batmobile armour back.

trick is to destroy it faster than it regenerates, it's basically an additional shield layer, and I can think of a few weapons that could easily punch through. but those weapons are from other sci-fi.

[petujaymz]

Awesome...

[COZMIN95]

A part of it looks like a Xenomorph head :D Nice!

[smitto21]

lol where?

[Quantum9975]

lol a chance to explode of nerdism =D

I think the temporal prime directive would order the technology dismantled and removed, and possibly a secret sect of starfleet would keep it in use (off the records, right?)

As far as the armor goes, they replicated the materials and built the emitters for Voyager? Why couldn't they have the same ability to equip a fleet? All in all, the prime directive was broken. Given the situation, and the borg crippled, I think they left out a court martial =)

[smitto21]

cant court martial a dead woman nope

[matthew5484]

The new equipment would probably have been confiscated immediately after they returned to earth. Partly due to the temporal accords of not messing with the timelines/ future developments and also possibly as a back up so if the borg show up again some of the best ships could be fitted with the technology that the borg have not adapted to. If large numbers of ships had the same technology there is a greater chance of the borg getting there hands on it making it useless agaionst them.

[trickmastermonkey]

looks fake to me

[Aslapacrosstheface]

Ablative armor kicks ass.

[brianwesley28]

One question and a comment.

Comment: It looks like the ablative armor is based upon the same technology as the holodeck emitter, or replicator. Manipulating the molecular structure of matter and reshaping it for a suitable purpose. In this case, ablative armor.

Question: After Voyager returned in Endgame, she was still equipped with the futuristic ablative armor. Why was it not retrofitted to all existing Starfleet vessels, as well as newer designs and commissioned vessels?

[udoprog]

Probably was, only that you can't say for certain if an alternative timeline wasn't created when Janeway travelled back from the future.

But the view on a continuous timeline in ST has always bothered me a little. You are able to restore a timeline by copying some actions, but on the same time they time travel create alternative realities. Fuzzy to say the least.

Point is, in the timeline which voyager comes back from DQ early, they probably outfitted the entire fleet and whooped some ass.

[somethingboring]

Maybe it was too advanced to retro-engineer.

Maybe that would stir up unrest with the other major powers in the Alpha quadrant. Or maybe it was just a one time plot device that never, EVER gets mentioned again.

[brianwesley28]

Yeah. Kind of like the cannon they tested, from a weapons designer, that they were interested in before the dude decided to steal some of Seven's nanotechnology? Then they decided to discontinue the relationship with the weapons designer. Well, don't they have scanners on Voyager? Duh. They even had it onboard and tested it. They'd even have the computer operation specs. Why didn't they just replicate one after they left, if it was so bad ass? It appeared to be bad ass. That kind of thing.

[somethingboring]

Star Trek has always suffered from this kind of thing, remember the Borg infant from the episode Collective? It was supposedly saved but was never heard of or seen again.

[STLegacy]

Because, if another ship with the armour would be assimilated, they have the technology. So it's safer to only equip about one with it.

[GenSoda]

More like the self-replicating mines that Nog designed during the Dominion war. Damage a section and it repairs itself.

Think less Voyager when it comes to technology Starfleet designed, not 7of9 :)

[MadMossieProductions]

Hmm.....i wonder whats 2 transphasic torpedos would do to the death star LOL

[nobodyitellyou]

@MadMossieProductions The thermal exhaust port is only ray-shielded. Any torpedo should do the trick. Phasers wouldn't do jack, of course...

[JohanStarDragon]

Anyone else had flashbacks of the Batmobile in the Tim Burton version of Batman?

[bldude2]

eh.. the armor isn't even touching the hull XD pause at 0:01 you'll see a noticeable gap between the hull and ablative armor.

[Acherus29A]

from what I understand, those hull attachments form the armor as sort of a mix between a shield and replicated armor, so i guess it makes sense to keep it at a distance like a shield, but closer

[Animeextreme25]

I do believe i see the new "Intrepid Refit" lol

[FLAME4564]

lol now this is REAL protection every star trek ship lacks :)

[CmdrofNine]

Anyone ever wonder where was the USS Enterprise-E at the time?(Dominion War) I was disappointed when it didnt show up at least as a cameo on DS9.

[sm0kingJay]

they couldn't use it due to legal reason relating to the movies I read... a bit silly really.

[Prestinoiam]

thats pretty DAMN HOT!

[LBARCE]

would have been so awesome to see this in the dominion war, them breen energy dampers would have nothing on it probably

[littlemegamonkey]

i don't think this is ablative armor, i think it's just called armor. ablative armor is what the defiant had.

[swordarchertex]

its is, its just different

damn you continuity!

[Acelif]

Would have loved it if Voyager returned during the Dominion War so the Feddies could've used this. Would've been awesome to see the Dominion ships doing jack for a change.

[Herbie14f]

It was funny to see a Borg cube get blown to bits with one shot. :D

[transientvoltage]

Yeah, especially since the Borg ships were to the ships they assimilated as the imperial star destroyers were to the rebel starships in Star Wars as far as size comparison went.

[brianwesley28]

I doubt that God's grace could be found by those who cannot even find their assholes.

[comtedelafrere]

I wish my car had that.

[firewarrior909]

every time i see that i hear the original Adama say 'Positive shield !' in the back of my head

[trysill]

That armor is badass! Every starfleet ship needs that!

[magussucks]

@trysill that armor pwns the shit out of the borg and rapes them! Just like I did your mom!

[terrywest111]

@trysill I'm sure they all do get it at some point! :p

[bobbyjolinar]

From Future Janeway

[terminattheconqueror]

where did they get THAT?!

[Alpha17ReconCommando]

the show is still showing as reruns if u want to see the episode they get it. it is on SPIKE if u wanted to know

[terminattheconqueror]

I know I'm not stupid I watch it everyday