Voyager Deploying Ablative Armor
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@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
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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
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True brooklyn560. If another were to make a direct phaser hit in a loaded torpedo bay, the torpedoes wou
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@LohenArc I heard there were legal issues with using it in the movie since it came from a TV show. Idk for sure, though.
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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
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@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.
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@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.
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@LohenArc To avoid entrapment and got this tech stolen?
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@GigawingsVideo Considering that voyager implements in little time whatsoever, and with their limited resources, cost is not an issue.
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Ablative armor is the worst scifi joke everrrrr!!!!!!
reminds of batman (1989) when batman said sheilds and batmobile had shields
KingDT2007 8 months ago 8
Isn't that Michael Keaton's bat mobile shielding?!?!
paralentor 6 months ago 3