Timeline for How can people teleport through forcefields in Star Trek?
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| Aug 30, 2011 at 18:11 | comment | added | DampeS8N | @Kyle Cronin: perfect example! There are several episodes where knowledge of a ships shield frequency rotation schedule is used to match, which lets to shoot/beam through them as if they aren't there. | |
| Aug 30, 2011 at 17:09 | comment | added | Kyle Cronin | Actaully, that makes some sense. In TNG "The Wounded" O'Brien says that there's a fraction of a second gap (something like 1/50 or 1/60) that he can beam through the shields with. That would be consistent with synchronizing it to the frequency of the shields. | |
| Aug 30, 2011 at 16:12 | comment | added | itsadok | @DampeS8N I'd love to get a source for that | |
| Aug 30, 2011 at 12:14 | comment | added | DampeS8N | In fact, most battles in the universe that aren't with a species like the Borg boil down to one ship disabling a generator/puncturing a localized part/matching the frequency of the other, and then using that gap to damage the other ship (Or beam their occupants to the brig, if destroying the ship is undesirable.) Very rarely are a ship's shields drained entirely before the ship is disabled, although the shows makes it seem like a constant threat. 4 blasts from nearly any ship reducing the shields to 10 percent. | |
| Aug 30, 2011 at 11:36 | history | answered | RoguePlanetoid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |