Timeline for Why did the Yridian destroyer explode?
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| Jan 25, 2015 at 10:30 | comment | added | trejder | It's reasonable to assume, by an experienced and curious watcher, like you. For me, wathich this episode partially focused, even appearane of Yridians ship was kind of surprise. Note also, that I only passed information from MA. I don't have enough knowledge or ST-experience to support this claim, vote against it or to battle your arguments. I simply added this as a side note. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 10:27 | comment | added | Valorum | @trejder - Yes. In the context of the episode, it's reasonable to assume that the Yridians were hiding outside of sensor range, then ran in as fast as they could, as soon as the Enterprise went away. On top of that, Galen presumably was running away at the shuttle's top speed when the Yridians arrived. That combined with the Yridians firing their primary weapon and raising shields to defend themselves against the enterprise was sufficient to overload their generators. | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 10:13 | comment | added | trejder | Worth noting, that according to Memory Alpha article, this (Data's) explanation was only in the script, not in the final, filmed episode: "The final episode contains no explanation for the destruction of the Yridian ship (...) following a single phaser blast (...) Teleplay contains a line by Data immediately following the ship's destruction that explains this (...) Yet, even the original teleplay does not explain exactly why the ship was overloading its power generators." (parts removed by me). | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 7:38 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |