Question about Wolf 359

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:00 pm

It did? Had the probe taken damage? Do we know it actualy had shields (it was a probe, after all)?

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:05 pm

I cant rememer exactly but I know it was beamed on and destroyed the probe. I do think it had taken a few phaser blasts but not a lot. It should have shields, it was big enough.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:55 pm

True, but it was a probe. It wasn't meant to go into dangerous situations, so a shield would be inneficient given its objectives. The fact that they were able to beam a torp onto it, yet not against ships like Cubes, would seem to confirm this theory.

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:31 pm

Borg shields seem to be set off and away from the hull, as we've seen that a shuttles can fly inside of the sheild wall and transport persons to and from.

Post by **Teaos** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:35 pm

How does a shuttle get through a shield?

Post by **Mikey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:36 pm

Teaos wrote:How does a shuttle get through a shield?

Carefully.

MetalHead · Post by **MetalHead** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:03 pm

Teaos wrote:How does a shuttle get through a shield?

with epic amounts of testosterone, anything can be accomplished.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:16 pm

Seriously, though, I'd chalk that up to technobabble of the day. We know the Borg Cube had KE shields (otherwise it wouldn't have stopped the torps), so there's really no excuse for the shuttle to have been able to get there.

Sonic Glitch · Post by **Sonic Glitch** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:11 pm

I believe techinically it was an "EM Field" blocking transport. I think so at least, it's been a while since I watched BOBW but it seems familiar. So it wasn't a "shield" in the sense of a combat shield, but a transporter blocking field.

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:54 pm

That would work, their shields may not block transporters very well.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:07 pm

That's a possibility, but why would their shields not be able to when all other races' can?

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:11 pm

IU - the Borg only act to what they as a whole think is a threat and boarding isn't a threat.

OOU - Because the writers are just that pathetic in their meanless lives that they have to screw something so simple that a 5 year old could do.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:13 pm

So the answer, in both in-universe and out-universe, is stupidity.

Well there's a surprise.

Post by **Mikey** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:21 pm

Deepcrush wrote:IU - the Borg only act to what they as a whole think is a threat and boarding isn't a threat.

Excellent point, Deep - if the Borg don't care about you wandering around their ship, why would they bother trying to stop you from getting aboard?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:16 pm

And the Borg can't tell if your beaming over some meaningless snoops, or a whole warp core. Hey, come to think about it, Enterprise could have beamed over a dozen or so photons instead of that crap with the deflector dish, and Wolf 359 may never have happened.

Writers, worse than temporal mechanics

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