Timeline for In "Star Trek" (2009), how did the Enterprise collide with debris while the shields were on?
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| Mar 3, 2012 at 0:53 | answer | added | KeithS | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 0:27 | comment | added | KeithS | Photon torpedoes are physical objects, as are shuttles/runabouts (which can only be launched/retrieved with shields down). | |
| Feb 18, 2012 at 17:21 | answer | added | Ray Jen | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 4:18 | vote | accept | HNL | ||
| Jan 26, 2012 at 14:14 | comment | added | Jeff | @HNL: Deflectors don't work against big things or things that are moving fast (most likely the isn't a size or speed limit, but an energy limit based off of mass x velocity). So it can deflect micrometeorites and interstellar dust, but not torpedoes or large debris. Shields don't do much versus physical objects, but largely mitigate (often to nothing) damage from energy weapons. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 7:37 | comment | added | Chad Levy | It's cooler to see obliterated panelling and collapsed framing than it is to see something bounce harmlessly off an energy barrier (with an obligatory bridge shot of panels exploding and sparks everywhere to suggest a collision). Like most things in ST 2009, the reason could quite simply be theatrical. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 3:12 | comment | added | HNL | @Jeff: I've been waiting for someone who knows the distinction. They keep calling the shields deflector shields and then they also refer to the deflector/s (the latter of which I originally understood to mean the forward-facing dish structure in TOS and TNG). But some of the dialogue in VOY and DS9 has had me confused. | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 21:43 | answer | added | Becca Royal-Gordon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 18:01 | comment | added | Jeff | Shields don't deflect the dust, that's the job of the main deflector dish. It may not have been up and working yet, or the debris was simply too large for the deflector to handle. | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 15:39 | comment | added | Tango | @BobbyAlexander: That was in the script, so the writer goofed. | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 14:20 | answer | added | André Stannek | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 14:13 | answer | added | Xantec | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 10:18 | answer | added | HorusKol | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 10:18 | comment | added | bobbyalex | Uh... the director goofed? | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 9:21 | history | asked | HNL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |