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Are Disruptors gravity weapons?

Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:52 pm
by Lucky
Hero Worship wrote:
LAFORGE: Magnetic residual analysis confirms that the Vico was attacked inside the Black Cluster. The graviton wave fronts pushed the ship to where we found it. 


PICARD: No signs of phaser burns on the hull. 


LAFORGE: No, sir. Torsional stress levels point to a disrupter-style weapon. 


DATA: Fracture points indicate that the energy burst came from a range of less than three thousand metres. 


PICARD: But that's a strategy consistent with a cloaked vessel. Romulan. Or Klingon. But we're quite a distance from either of their territories. 


DATA: The Breen have outposts in this sector. The attack on the Vico is consistent with their battle tactics and their level of technology. 


PICARD: Thank you, Data. But what would the Breen be doing inside the Black Cluster? The boy described a boarding party with helmets and phaser rifles. 


LAFORGE: Boarding party? I don't think that's likely, sir.
Hero Worship wrote: PICARD: Go ahead, Commander. 
WORF: Initiating warp-transfer pathways now. 


LAFORGE [OC]: Diverting warp power to the shields. 


TIMOTHY: Warp power to the shields. They said that too, Data. I'm positive. 


WORF: Wavefront intensity has increased by a factor of ten. Contact in thirty one seconds. Without additional power to the shields, the outer hull will not hold. 


RIKER: La Forge?

-=-=-=-=-=-

LAFORGE [OC]: That's as strong as they're going to get. 


WORF: Impact in fifteen seconds. 

(Data finishes running his analysis)

DATA: Sir, drop the shields. 


RIKER: That's suicide, Data. 


DATA: Captain, drop the shields. 


PICARD: Make it so. 


WORF: Aye. 

(a very gently ripple rocks the ship) 

DATA: Our own shields caused the increases in the wavefronts, sir. We have been experiencing a harmonic amplification effect. 


RIKER: The more energy we dumped into the shield grid, the worse the impact. 


DATA: Precisely. That is also what destroyed the Vico. When Timothy remembered similar procedures on his ship, I initiated an analysis of shield output to wavefront amplitude and discovered a correlation. 


PICARD: If we had transferred all that warp power to the shields, it would have torn the ship apart. 


RIKER: Status, Ensign? 


FELTON: Navigation is coming back online. 


PICARD: Full about, one quarter impulse. Take us out of here.
As stated in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Hero Worship Klingon and Romulan disruptors cause the ship to twist and break, and cause damage consistent with a gravitational wavefront.

Does this mean that Disruptors are in fact gravity weapons?

Re: Are Disruptors gravity weapons?

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:22 pm
by Mr. Oragahn
Mere shockwaves through hulls due to explosions cause ships to shake and twist. Even a mere turn makes a ship bend, but structural enhancing gizmos prevent that.
If anything, you could say that blowing those SEG in random ways would probably cause a lot of damage already, beyond the mere concussive effects of weapon blasts.

Re: Are Disruptors gravity weapons?

Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:54 am
by Lucky
Mr. Oragahn wrote: Mere shockwaves through hulls due to explosions cause ships to shake and twist. Even a mere turn makes a ship bend, but structural enhancing gizmos prevent that.
If anything, you could say that blowing those SEG in random ways would probably cause a lot of damage already, beyond the mere concussive effects of weapon blasts.

What the ship would look like intact
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip061.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip062.jpg

What the Enterprise-D found
http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip003.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip026.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip027.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip028.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip029.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip030.jpg

http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/ ... hip050.jpg
That doesn't look like the damage came from within like you suggest, and the shields are gravitational distortions themselves.

What does SEG stand for?

Re: Are Disruptors gravity weapons?

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:19 am
by Mr. Oragahn
SEGWAY?
Fuck, I can't even remember. Must have been drunken.
Now there's a fly I need to kill.
Bye.