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EnsignParis
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Joined: 07 Sep 2001
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 Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:09 am What does the deflector dish do? |
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Well...you read the title. What does it do?
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@Chuckles
Rear Admiral
Joined: 23 Aug 2002
Posts: 3253
Location: I want to drink your blood lol
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| Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:41 am |
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it deflects stuff...it catches signals...it send signals too i think...and it could be used to bake the biggest turkey in the delta quadrant 
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Zeke Zabertini
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Joined: 13 Sep 2002
Posts: 4832
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| Mon Dec 23, 2002 3:25 am |
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The deflector dish on a starship is used to push all of the small bits of space dust and debris out of the path of the ship, allowing it safe passage at warp speeds without being turned into proverbial swiss cheese. Since it is such a vertisile device however, it can also be used to emit beams and pulses of various energy modulations. Clearing debris is it's primary function though.
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PrankishSmart
Rear Admiral
Joined: 29 Apr 2002
Posts: 4779
Location: Hobart, Australia.
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syd2002
Admiral
Joined: 25 Mar 2002
Posts: 8919
Location: Somewere in the world, makeing a difference
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| Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:31 am |
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Good explanation 
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Dax Orien
Helmsman
Joined: 24 Aug 2001
Posts: 856
Location: My own little hell.
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| Tue Dec 24, 2002 4:36 am |
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I'd have to concure with the Admiral's decription. Yeah, it stops the ship from becoming swiss cheese.
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The Delta Flyer
Commodore
Joined: 08 Apr 2002
Posts: 2163
Location: East Yorkshire
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| Sun Dec 29, 2002 6:19 pm |
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It deflects dishes that are floating in space and by doing so prevents them from smashing against the starships hull which would make a mess...wots that you dont think thats the reason?
Lol, no that link is pretty cool in explaining it...when the Enterprise-E ejects her dish does that mean she was vulnerable to space debris? would she still have been able to use her shields?
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Vortex
Squeak Attack
Joined: 19 Jun 2002
Posts: 7170
Location: The Edge
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| Sun Dec 29, 2002 10:19 pm |
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as far as I remember shields go off before the ship enters warp. I wonder what series that was again where they beamed someone out just before the ship entered warp. Must have been TOS.........hmm, I'll look into it.
It must have been TOS, because in nemesis the enterprise was in warp when fired upon. And the shields were operational.
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PrankishSmart
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Posts: 4779
Location: Hobart, Australia.
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| Mon Dec 30, 2002 8:42 am |
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^sovereign class ships are 100+ years newer than constitution class ships, simple 
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Vortex
Squeak Attack
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Posts: 7170
Location: The Edge
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| Mon Dec 30, 2002 7:19 pm |
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^and still they have problems with cloaked ships 
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Zeke Zabertini
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| Mon Dec 30, 2002 10:05 pm |
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The cloaks improve too you know...
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Captain Matt UssVoyager
Commander
Joined: 05 Jan 2003
Posts: 453
Location: UssEnterprise-E
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| Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:39 am what does the Dish Do |
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It moves things out of the way of the starship why the are moveing at impules and warp and truse to pertect the Hall and it is a almost type of shilding And it Can Be a weapon to
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excel55
Ensign
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Posts: 65
Location: Red Neckville USA
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| Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:27 pm |
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It moves things in front of the ship while it is in warp speed. That way nothing will damage the ship while its in warp.
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voyagerlr
Commodore
Joined: 14 Jul 2002
Posts: 2448
Location: USS Shockwave
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| Tue Mar 04, 2003 6:32 pm |
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im sorry but u r all wrong, a deflector dish limits the g-force exposure to which the crew of a ship is exposed to when jumping to wapr eg
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<-----------------G-force pressure!
the deflecotr acts as a barrier, stopping the crew from bieing turned it mush! every time that idiot picard yell's "Engage!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Hyper
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Joined: 07 Apr 2003
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Location: UK
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| Mon Apr 07, 2003 11:14 pm |
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| voyagerlr wrote: | im sorry but u r all wrong, a deflector dish limits the g-force exposure to which the crew of a ship is exposed to when jumping to wapr eg
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<-----------------G-force pressure!
the deflecotr acts as a barrier, stopping the crew from bieing turned it mush! every time that idiot picard yell's "Engage!!!!!!!!!!!" |
I'm sorry, but your wrong and everyone else is right. Youre getting confused with the inertial dampening field, which does exactly what you say. The deflector is a low powered force field that repels micrometeors and the like. On first contact, the Enterprise would just need to power up its shields to go to warp (Its like a fine net would protect you from mosquito's and so would an A1 Abrams tank! Get it?)
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