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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2004, 06:54:11 AM » |
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The only real protection against Phaser fire is energy shields, and I don't think most alpha quadrant races use or even have personal energy sheields so the only other choice is to carry alot of firepower and try not to get into a conflict.
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2004, 03:07:54 PM » |
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actualy u thunk they could come up with a personal shield for ppl would be so cool,u get hit 15 times and sields at 75 percent and yer still advancing lke the borg  |
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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2004, 03:27:56 PM » |
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They have them for engineering teams (to go into dangerous areas and fix stuff), so why shouldn't they have them for security teams?
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2004, 07:02:03 PM » |
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well actually.. the first knight were wearin stuff to protect themselves... remember the samurai.. and i still got some things in mind like bulletproofvests... a shield would be something to think about... but i think the producers never thought of such things... or it would be too much against the TOS series, like the thing that they didnt land on planets but beamin, just bcause of the high prices for animations... i dont know...
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2004, 08:20:47 PM » |
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At least Elite Force and Elite Force II know personal shields.  As do the Borg.  Also, I think we never saw true ground forces in ST except the few Marines in Enterprise (though I haven't seen the Episodes yet... damn Sat.1! ). Mostly it was usual Starfleet personnel engaged in fights. Another possibility could be that usual armor wouldn't be effective against phasers and things alike. So, why waste energy for it. Another thing is perhaps that Star Trek was originally meant to be rather "pacifistic", so why should Starfleet personnel look so martial? Well, one of the many riddles Roddenberry left us... |
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2004, 09:42:05 PM » |
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well actually.. the first knight were wearin stuff to protect themselves... remember the samurai actualy many samurai wore armor Ronin did not but this is off topic so... |
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« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2004, 11:51:26 PM » |
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It's stupid, they should just have lil sheild genoraters around thier waists. It wouldn't be as noticable as a phaser in it's holster or a rifle in thier hand.
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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2004, 02:12:16 AM » |
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You never see them with that technology tho, I never said that they did have it and i've never seen anything in the movies or show. Why didn't they shield that ground vehicle in Nemesis that Picard rode in?
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« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2004, 01:27:10 PM » |
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Starfleet engineers, they make good stuff but they gotta shield everything.
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« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2004, 02:30:44 PM » |
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yes personal shielding its verry cool pop HEY! WATCH WHERE U AIM THAT THING! *computer*shields at 97%  |
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« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2004, 04:12:18 PM » |
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i think i remember the toskfrom voyager, or a book or something but thAT NME RINGS A BELL   |
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