Duonetic Radiation vs Imperial Equipment

[Kazuaki Shimazaki]

With the thinning of the ASVS ranks, previously suppressed Trekkies are mysteriously coming back to life. In addition to claiming they would easily detect, target and attack the 2m exhaust port on the Death Star, they have scraped up yet another one-time Treknobabble radiation:

In DS9:Paradise, there's this duonetic radiation. It supposedly inhibits energy flows, and can stop shuttle engines and life support, but somehow does not inhibit the "electronics" in human bodies from working. This radiation can be produced naturally, or, with the help of a suitcase sized object, supposedly disrupt electronics (of course, only ST electronics have been subjected to the test) throughout the planetary surface of an inhabitable planet.

The Trekkies want to extend that to say they can shut down the DS using one of these infernal suitcases.

Never mind that as with other one-time treknobabble, we never see this tech being used where by Trekkie logic it'd have been of great value. Never mind we don't know its limits. Never mind Star Wars electrical systems probably use more flow than they could imagine. Never mind Trek tech is typically vulnerable.

I've got the script for the episode (ironically, thanks to a Trekkie), but maybe someone here has actually seen the thing.

Any advice? Any more info? Thank you in advance.

Moderators: If this kind of post is unacceptable, please just delete it. I'm only posting this because occasionally I see "request help" posts in other boards. Thank you for your tolerance.

[Darth Wong]

DS electronics are shielded by its dense hull, even if we assume that this radiation would have the same effect on the DS that it does on a Fed shuttle.

[Isolder74]

I guess Star Trek Engineers have somehow forgotten the principle of the Faraday Cage. There is a reason you are safe in a lighting storm inside the body of an automobile, or a suit of armor for that matter. The charges of an electric field will by nature not penetrate into the center of a metal object but will stay generaly on the outer surface of the object. This is also known as a gausian surface. Unless this stuff is something other than some type of Electro-Magnetic Radiation the hull of the shuttlecraft should be able to completely halt the effects. Now it is possible for the sudden shift in charges to burn out electrical components inside the car, this is an after effect.

Since it still does something we have to conclude that Trek systems are so open to the enviroment that they are easily affected by radiation. Either that or this 'stuff' is somehow subspace related making it not truely radiation.