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.
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.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?
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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.
Does this mean that Disruptors are in fact gravity weapons?
