Star Trek: It matters more what you hit the shields with?

[Lucky]

Hypothosis:
Weapons in Star Trek are designed to defeat shields by exploiting weaknesses in the shield designs do to extreme energy requirements of defeating the shields through brute force.

THE EXPARAMENT
Weapons used should have widely varying yields, and range from no effect to near instant loss of shields to shield doing nothing.

Dialog should note exploitable weaknesses that exist do to the physics used to create the shields even if the view can't be sure what they are.

EVIDENCE
SHIELD

DEPAUL: Screens firm, sir. Extremely powerful sonic vibrations. Decibels eighteen to the twelfth power. If those screens weren't up, we'd be totally disrupted by now.

SPOCK: To shoot through. It might also relieve Lieutenant Uhura's communications problem. Take these equations to the nuclear electronics lab. I want them to work on the problem of negating the force field in selected areas. That might be done by generating a strong pinpoint charge of M-rays on some of these selected wave lengths and tying them in with the combined output of all our engines.

KIRK: Every solar system in this sector blasted to rubble and still no sign of the Constellation. Matt Decker's in command. What could have happened to him?


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DECKER [OC]: Captain's log, stardate 4202.1. Exceptionally heavy subspace interference still prevents our contacting Starfleet to inform them of the destroyed solar systems we have encountered. We are now entering system L-374. Science Officer Masada reports the fourth planet seems to be breaking up. We are going to investigate. 


KIRK: The fourth planet. Only two left now. Scotty, pull the microtapes from the sensor memory banks and beam them aboard to Spock. I want a full analysis, a complete report of what happened when they went in on that planet. 


DECKER: We tried to contact Starfleet. No one heard. No one! We couldn't run. 


KIRK: What happened to your crew? 


DECKER: Oh, I had to beam them down. We were dead. No power, our phasers useless. I stayed behind, the last man. The Captain, the last man aboard the ship. That's what you're supposed to do, isn't it? And then it hit again and the transporter went out. They were down there, and I'm up here. 


KIRK: What hit? What attacked you? 


DECKER: They say there's no devil, Jim, but there is. Right out of hell, I saw it. 


KIRK: Matt, where's your crew? 


DECKER: On the third planet. 


KIRK: There is no third planet. 


DECKER: Don't you think I know that? There was, but not anymore. They called me. They begged me for help, four hundred of them. I couldn't. I couldn't. (breaks down in tears)


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SULU: Closing fast. 


SPOCK: Deflector shields at full power. They can't take much more of this. 


DECKER: Helmsman, hold your course. Stand by all phaser banks. 


SULU: Aye, aye, sir. 


(The planet killer fires at them.) 


SPOCK: Deflectors holding, but weakening. We must retreat, Commodore. The energy drain 


DECKER: I'm in command here, Mister Spock. Maintain your course, helmsman. Get us in closer.

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WASHBURN: We made a complete check on structural and control damage, sir. As far as we can tell, something crashed through the deflectors and knocked out the generators. Somehow the antimatter in the warp drive pods has been deactivated. 


KIRK: Deactivated? Scotty, could some kind of general energy dampening field do that, and would the same type of thing account for the heavy subspace interference? 


SCOTT: Aye, that all adds up. But what sort of a thing could do all that? 


DECKER: If you'd seen it, you'd know. The whole thing's a weapon. It must be. 


KIRK: What does it look like? 


DECKER: Well, it's miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships. It destroys planets, chops them into rubble. 


KIRK: What is it, an alien ship? Or is it alive, or is it 


DECKER: Both or neither. I don't know. 


KIRK: Matt, your log stated that the fourth planet was breaking up. You went in to investigate. 


DECKER: We saw this thing hovering over the planet, slicing out chunks of it with a force beam. 


KIRK: Did you run a scanner check on it? What kind of a beam? 


DECKER: Pure antiproton. Absolutely pure.

DATA: Sensors show it to be an interplanetary vessel, sir. Class seven, crew complement twenty six. 


WORF: Still no response. Captain, they are now locking lasers on us. 


RIKER: Lasers? 


WORF: Yes, sir. 


PICARD: Lasers can't even penetrate our navigation shields. Don't they know that? 


RIKER; Regulations so call for a Yellow Alert. 


PICARD: A very old regulation. Well, make it so, Number One. And reduce speed. Drop main shields as well. 


RIKER: May I ask why, sir? 


PICARD: In case we decide to surrender to them, Number One. 


WORF: Still no response to our hail, sir.

TUCKER: Beautiful. Lock it off right there. (wipes a fingerprint off the warp console) 


REED: I believe you missed a spot. Commander Tucker, Ensign Travis Mayweather. He just arrived. 


TUCKER: Our space boomer. 


TRAVIS: How fast have you gotten her? 


TUCKER: Warp four. We'll be going to four five as soon as we clear Jupiter. Think you can handle it? 


TRAVIS: Four point five. 


REED: Pardon me, but if I don't realign the deflector, the first grain of space dust we come across will blow a hole through this ship the size of your fist. 


TUCKER: Keep your shirt on, Lieutenant. Your equipment'll be here in the morning.

JELLICO: Then you must've done Titan's Turn. 


LAFORGE: Oh, yeah. You set a course directly for Titan, hold it until you're just brushing the atmosphere, throw the helm hard over and whip around the moon at point seven c. 


JELLICO: And pray like hell nobody saw you.

KIRK: Well done, Mister Scott. How soon can we be ready for warp speed?


[Bird-of-Prey cargo bay]


SCOTT: Full power now, sir.


[Bird-of-Prey bridge]


KIRK: If you will, Mister Sulu.


SULU: Aye sir, warp speed!


KIRK: Mister Sulu, you have the con. I'm gonna take our guest down and have a look at her whales. Oh, Mister Spock! Have you accounted for the variable mass of whales and water in your time re-entry programme?


SPOCK: Mister Scott cannot give me exact figures, Admiral. ...So I will make a guess.


KIRK: A guess? You, Spock? That's extraordinary!


SPOCK: I don't think he understands.


McCOY: No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your 'guesses' than most other people's facts.


SPOCK: Then you're saying ...it is a compliment.


McCOY: It is.


SPOCK: Ah, then I will try to make the best guess I can.

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WORF: Captain, I am unable to get a positive lock with the tractor beam. There is magnetic field interference emanating from the core materials. 


PICARD: Activate a deflector dish. If we project a particle beam, we may be able to produce a disruptive nuclear effect within the core.

SPOCK: We've achieved a stable orbit out of Earth's atmosphere. Our deflectors are operative, enough to prevent our being picked up again as a UFO. And Mister Scott wishes to speak to you about the engines.

JANEWAY: Maintain a high orbit and modulate the shields to scatter their radar. We don't want to alarm the natives.


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TORRES: Interferometric dispersion is online. That should take care of any radar detection. And I've configured the shields to disguise our visual profile. Unless somebody gets right on top of us, we should look like a small twentieth century aircraft.

SULU: Captain, shields just snapped on. Something heading in at multiwarp speeds. 


KIRK: Evasive manoeuvres, Mister Sulu. 


SPOCK: An extremely powerful bolt of energy, Captain. 


KIRK: Full power to the shields, Mister Scott. 


SCOTT: Giving them all we got. 


KIRK: All hands, Red Alert. Phaser banks stand by. Photon torpedoes to Condition Red, Condition Red. 


(The viewscreen fills with a ball of bright light.) 


SULU: It's going to hit. 


(Everyone gets thrown around a lot, and the lights go out for a short while.) 


SCOTT: Shields still holding, sir. 


KIRK: Good. 


SPOCK: Temporarily, Captain. Our shields absorbed energy equivalent to ninety of our photon torpedoes. 


KIRK: Ninety? 


SPOCK: I may add, the energy used repulsing this first attack reduced our shielding power twenty percent. 


UHURA: First attack, sir? 


KIRK: I think we can expect others, Lieutenant. 


SPOCK: We can resist three more such attacks. The fourth will shatter our shields completely.

WORF: The vessel is firing jacketed streams of positrons and antiprotons. Equivalent firepower, forty megawatts. Shields are holding.


(Boom, boom) Again, forty megawatts. No damage. 


RIKER: If that's the best they can do, this should last about five minutes.


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WORF: Shields are down. Captain, they hit us with four hundred gigawatts of particle energy. 


PICARD: Damage? 


WORF: Superficial, but I'm having trouble reassembling the shields. (another hit) Shields down. There is thermal damage to the hull.

KEOGH: They're using some kind of phased polaron beam to penetrate our shields.


[Runabout Mekong]


DAX: Have you tried altering your harmonics to compensate?


[Odyssey Bridge]


KEOGH: We've run through the full spectrum, but none of the frequencies were effective. Divert shield power to weapons. We'll give O'Brien five more minutes

O'BRIEN: Sir, they've locked weapons on us. 


SISKO: All auxiliary power to forward shields. Colonel, attack pattern Delta. 


KIRA: Aye, sir. 


SISKO: Mister Worf, quantum torpedoes. 


WORF: Target locked. 


SISKO: Fire! 


(KABOOM! goes an enemy cruiser.) 


WORF: Target locked. Launchers one and two standing by. 


SISKO: Fire. 


(The enemy gets off an energy bolt just before it goes KaBoom. Electricity dances over Defiant's hull, and inside the bridge. Systems failure 408.)


O'BRIEN: What the hell's? 


(BOOM) 


KIRA: We've lost power to the helm. 


EZRI: The comm's out. 


WORF: So are weapons. 


BASHIR: Primary computer systems are off line. 


(BOOM) 


KIRA: Manual controls are frozen. 


SISKO: Chief? 


O'BRIEN: I can't get anything back online. Somehow they're draining all our power. 


JANEWAY: Shields to maximum! Stand by all weapons! 


TUVOK: They're in visual range. 


CHAKOTAY: My God. Captain. 


KIM: I'm picking up a polaron beam. We're being scanned. 


JANEWAY: Think good thoughts.

SHELBY: Mister La Forge has a plan to modulate shield nutation. Hopefully, that'll hold them off for awhile.

LAFORGE: Recommend we adjust shield harmonics to favour the upper EM band when you proceed.
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SHIELD STATUS: PRIMARY SYS ACTIVE
GRAVITON FIELD OUTPUT: 625 MCH
SHIELD MODULATION: 257.4 MHz

PHASER

PICARD: Thank you. That was the missing part. Lieutenant Yar, rig main phaser banks to deliver an energy beam. 


TASHA: Aye, sir. 


RIKER: You're right, Captain. It has to be conceivable that somewhere in this galaxy there could exist creatures able to convert energy into matter.

SHELBY: Data, fluctuate phaser resonance frequencies. Random settings. Keep them changing. Don't give them time to adapt.


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WESLEY: Saucer velocity one hundred metres per second and increasing, sir.


RIKER: Open fire, all weapons.


[Bridge]


SHELBY: Fire.


[Battle bridge]


WESLEY: Borg tractor beam attempting to lock on, sir. 


RIKER: Evasive manoeuvres, pattern Riker Alpha. 


WESLEY: Riker Alpha confirmed. They're ignoring the saucer section completely. 


RIKER: Just as you should, Captain. Ensign, evasive pattern, Riker Beta. 


WESLEY: Riker Beta confirmed. 


RIKER: Proceed to second phase, Commander Shelby.


[Bridge]


SHELBY: Acknowledged. Fire antimatter spread.

PHOTON TORPEDO

LAFORGE: Torpedoes now entering the stellar core. 


TIMICIN: Their shields are holding. Guidance systems normal. 


LAFORGE: Ignition sequence, six seconds

LURSA: That's it! Replay from time index nine two four. ...Magnify this section and enhance. ...Their shields are operating on a modulation of two five seven point four.


B'ETOR: Adjust our torpedo frequency to match two five seven point four!

RIKER: Photon torpedoes ready, sir. 


PICARD: Set them for a display blast a thousand metres short of the planet's surface. 


RIKER: Set. 


PICARD: Fire.

HOBSON: Sir, this is pointless. Those readings could be anything. There's no way for us to be sure the Romulans are out there. 


DATA: Reconfigure photon torpedo warhead yields. Set for high energy burst level six. 


HOBSON: Level six? But that won't even 


DATA: Do it! 


HOBSON: Torpedoes ready. Another message coming in. It's Captain Picard! 


PICARD [OC]: Mister Data, you were ordered to rendezvous with the fleet at Gamma Eridon. Acknowledge. 


DATA: Stand by, Captain. Mister Hobson, prepare to fire. 


HOBSON: Didn't you hear? Captain Picard wants us 


DATA: Fire. Fire! 


(and three green meanies are briefly illuminated)

DATA [OC]: To begin the first illumination test. 


RIKER: Acknowledged. All science stations, stand by. We're about to light up the nebula. Mister Worf? 


WORF: Launch bay one shows ready, Commander. 


RIKER: Fire torpedo.


[Torpedo bay]


(the bright light glows in the purple nebula) 


JENNA: It's beautiful. Like watching fireworks when I was a little girl.

TUVOK: Perhaps we could shed some light on our predicament. I'm reconfiguring the torpedo to emit a sustained polyluminous burst. 


KIM: A warp flare. 


TUVOK: Precisely.

DATA: The binary message left by the Captain is not entirely clear. He seemed to be concerned about the phase differential of our photon torpedoes. That firing them might produce catastrophic effects. 


CRUSHER: Then how do we destroy their habitat? 


DATA: If I am correct, we must modify our weapons so that the force of the explosion is re-phased into the aliens' time continuum. 


LAFORGE: If we outfit the photons with phase discriminators we could get the variance we need. 


RIKER: How long will it take you? 


LAFORGE: At least a couple of hours. 


RIKER: Fine. I'll have time to go get him. 


DATA: Sir? 


RIKER: I'm going back to the nineteenth century to get the Captain. Doctor? 


CRUSHER: My analysis of the phasers suggests you'd be able to open the rift, but it won't be stable enough to transport more than one person. 


RIKER: You mean if I go back, only one of us can return? 


CRUSHER: That's right.

RIKER: We have some gaps in the aft shields, Captain. When the torpedoes explode, these areas will be contaminated with ion radiation. We need to evacuate sections twenty four to forty seven, decks thirty five through thirty eight.

RIKER: Then we need to shut down the particle fountain. What if we detonated a low yield photon torpedo within the particle stream? Wouldn't that shut it down? 


FARALLON: We'd have to configure the torpedo very carefully. The shape of the shock wave would be critical. But it could work. 


RIKER: How long would it take to set that up? 


DATA: I estimate that it would take a minimum of sixty five minutes to properly configure the torpedo.

Full Definitions of Relevant Words

Full Definition of RESONANCE

1
a :  the quality or state of being resonant

b (1) :  a vibration of large amplitude in a mechanical or electrical system caused by a relatively small periodic stimulus of the same or nearly the same period as the natural vibration period of the system (2) :  the state of adjustment that produces resonance in a mechanical or electrical system


2
a :  the intensification and enriching of a musical tone by supplementary vibration

b :  a quality imparted to voiced sounds by vibration in anatomical resonating chambers or cavities (as the mouth or the nasal cavity)

c :  a quality of richness or variety

d :  a quality of evoking response <how much resonance the scandal seems to be having — United States News & World Report>


3
:  the sound elicited on percussion of the chest


4
:  the conceptual alternation of a chemical species (as a molecule or ion) between two or more equivalent allowed structural representations differing only in the placement of electrons that aids in understanding the actual state of the species as an amalgamation of its possible structures and the usually higher-than-expected stability of the species


5
a :  the enhancement of an atomic, nuclear, or particle reaction or a scattering event by excitation of internal motion in the system

b :  magnetic resonance


6
:  an extremely short-lived elementary particle


7
:  a synchronous gravitational relationship of two celestial bodies (as moons) that orbit a third (as a planet) which can be expressed as a simple ratio of their orbital periods

Full Definition of FREQUENCY


1
:  the fact or condition of occurring frequently


2
a :  the number of times that a periodic function repeats the same sequence of values during a unit variation of the independent variable


b :  the number, proportion, or percentage of items in a particular category in a set of data


3
:  the number of repetitions of a periodic process in a unit of time: as


a :  the number of complete alternations per second of an alternating current


b :  the number of complete oscillations per second of energy (as sound or electromagnetic radiation) in the form of waves



Medical Definition of FREQUENCY


1
: the number of individuals in a single class when objects are classified according to variations in a set of one or more specified attributes


2
: the number of repetitions of a periodic process in a unit of time

Definition of NUTATION


1
archaic :  the act of nodding the head


2
:  oscillatory movement of the axis of a rotating body (as the earth) :  wobble


3
:  a spontaneous usually spiral movement of a growing plant part

Full Definition of HARMONIC


1
:  musical


2
:  of or relating to musical harmony or a harmonic


3
:  pleasing to the ear :  harmonious


4
:  of an integrated nature :  congruous



Definition of HARMONIC


1
a :  overtone; especially :  one whose vibration frequency is an integral multiple of that of the fundamental



b :  a flutelike tone produced on a stringed instrument by touching a vibrating string at a nodal point


2
:  a component frequency of a complex wave (as of electromagnetic energy) that is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency

Definition of MODULATION


1
:  an inflection of the tone or pitch of the voice; specifically :  the use of stress or pitch to convey meaning


2
:  a regulating according to measure or proportion :  tempering


3
:  a change from one musical key to another by modulating


4
:  the process of modulating a carrier or signal (as in radio); also :  the result of this process


Medical Definition of MODULATION


1
: the act or process of modulating


2
: a reversible change in histological structure due to physiological factors

[Lucky]

TRAVIS: They're closing, fast.
ARCHER: Aft torpedoes. Return fire.
REED: No effect. They're using some kind of energy shielding.
T'POL: Direct hit to Engineering, subsection 12. We've taken damage.
ARCHER: Would the phase cannons be more effective?

This seems like the smoking gun that proves what weapon is used on shields matters, and that some weapons are literally useless against shields.


I'm I correct?