A different kind of ion cannon?

[Lord of the Farce]

Plug it in, and the power drain will cause the window forcefields to flicker and die, killing the crew with the cold vacuum of space. Then, thePressure differential between the Warp core's interior and the lack of air in engineering would cause it to detonate.

One problem with that. They use transparent alluminum, not forcefields.

Which is why they left the hangar doors open

[consequences]

And why the window in First Contact was a forcefield. considering that the Sovereign was supposed to be a warship, the GCS has to be at least as messed up.

[Warspite]

And why the window in First Contact was a forcefield. considering that the Sovereign was supposed to be a warship, the GCS has to be at least as messed up.

It wasn't a window. Picard and the... woman, I forgot her name, exit from one of the magical Jeffries Tubes into some sort of room, then Picard convinces her that she's aboard a spaceship by pressing a bottom, opening a hatch into space. Thank technobabble for force fields!

BTW, why would they waste energy creating these forcefields? Is the waarp engine so powerfull they can waste it on superflous things like these? (oh, yeah, it's doesn't makes sense!!!! )

[Col. Crackpot]

Ionic Breeze? Ions? Nobody but me finds this the least bit amusing?


Oh well...

my thinking is that accumulation of ion particles from the ionic breeze would destabilize optical data stream causing massive plasma flow fluxuation in the tertiary EPS conduit. Said conduit just so happens to run directly underneath the Helm station manned by a hapless ensign. Needless to say the obvious result would be a terminal case of exploding console syndrome.

[greenmm]

Throw it in the warp core? Bouncing it off one of the nacelles would probably be sufficient.

Heck, plug it in in the captain's briefing room, and the interference generated by the AC motor inside, combined with the stream of ions flowing through the machine, will:
-- cause interference with the sensors, effectively blinding the GCS
-- wreak havoc with Data's internal processors, alternately giving him massive GPF's (General Protection Faults) or forcing his emotion chip to switch on and off in time at a frequency of 60 Hz
-- degrade performance in the EPS conduits, causing power drains and brownouts on all decks
-- trap some luckless souls in the holodeck suites, turning off all safety interlocks while they're doing something incredibly stupid and deadly
-- set up harmonic vibrations in the warp core that will cause the engines to attempt to jump to and out of warp 60 times per second
-- overload the power systems in Wesley's quarters, thus releasing or supercharging whatever dangerous experiment of the week he's been working on that most sane engineers know better than to be playing around with
-- randomly reprogram the replicators so that they mix all food and drink orders up
-- central computer starts playing Picard's classical music collection at 60x normal speed and max volume over the speakers... or worse, his practice sessions with his recorder...

[Warspite]

[quote="greenmm]
-- randomly reprogram the replicators so that they mix all food and drink orders up[/quote]

Picard: "Computer. Tea, Earl Grey."

In a flahsy stream of light and sound a cup of coffe, extra black, appears.

Picard: "THAT'S JANEWAY'S BEVERAGE!!!" (So as not to call it something else, since we are politically correct).

[Uraniun235]

Throw it in the warp core? Bouncing it off one of the nacelles would probably be sufficient.

TNG "The Chase": two Galor-class starships fire on one of the nacelles multiple times. The Enterprise's shields are down, although they did do something like "boost power to the SIFs".

Lord of the Force, consequences: So, the concept that they use different technologies for different applications (transparent aluminum in the conference room of the E-D, vs. forcefields in the shuttlebay) is totally unfathomable to you?

[consequences]

Take a Fucking Joke Uranium, its not like this thread was serious to begin with.