Timeline for Why can't Transporter technology be used as a weapon?
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| Sep 10, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | MauganRa | @Bobby maybe the reason is that it's difficult to gauge what damage this tactic might do to a ship. Even with the Borg there's the possibility of capturing technology or rescuing unassimilated persons. | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 7:24 | comment | added | trejder | @bitmask +1 (pity, that I can do just one) for: "It was... efficient"! :] You made my day! :] | |
| Mar 25, 2014 at 7:23 | comment | added | trejder | @RobertF In this particular episode (VOY: The Dark Frontier) Borg vessel's shields were not down, but were remodulating frequencies. This is time period to short for firing a protone torpedo, but apparently long enough to establish transport of that torpedo. I would ask, if direct laser hit wouldn't be quicker than time spent on taking coordinates, arming and deploying torpedo through transporter, but that question would be... inefficient! :] | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 15:43 | comment | added | bitmask | @RobertF: Borg vessels don't care too much if you fire single torpedoes at them. | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | RobertF | I can see the transporter bomb was effective when the shields of the Borg vessel were down - but if the shields are down why not just fire the photon torpedo directly at the Borg vessel to blow it up? | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | bitmask | @Bobby: Yes, they didn't intend for the vessel to be entirely destroyed - they just wanted to disable it. By beaming a photon torpedo inside it ... of course, I totally buy that! | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 20:27 | comment | added | Bobby | If I remember correctly, Janeway was not happy with how that went (and never did it again on-screen). | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 23:27 | comment | added | jfrankcarr | Transporter bombs were an optional element in the Star Fleet Battles game. | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 21:31 | comment | added | Kevin | In another Voy episode, IIRC, the Kasons got ahold of a transporter and used it to beam a few enemies into space. | |
| Mar 21, 2012 at 21:30 | history | edited | bitmask | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2012 at 21:24 | history | answered | bitmask | CC BY-SA 3.0 |