Holographic Technology applications

posted on February 21st, 2009, 2:57 pm

In the star trek series we've seen numerous applications from holographic applications:
* Holodeck
* EMH (emergency Medical Hologram)
* ECH (Emergency Command Hologram)
* Ghost Images created during ship-to-ship combat using Holographic emitters
* Hirogen taking over voyager and making it one big holographic training center.
* Picard shooting a Borg with a holographic Thomson machine gun
etc etc etc.

Now i propose to make holographic applications as special abilities in FO:
* Holographic Boarding parties - Vessel fires/transports holographic emitter on board of enemy vessel which spawns holographic soldiers who start killing the crew or take over the ship.

* Holographic decoys during ship-ship combat

* Holographic disguise

* Holographic decoys to be dropped by shuttles giving the impressions of fleets positioned there (perhaps some cloaked mine fields on route to that location )

Some ideas to be dropped in the cauldron of ideas.

posted on February 21st, 2009, 3:21 pm

There´s an enterprise episode, where the romulans used a ship that could mask itself as any other vessel, only the energy signature couldn´t be changed.

Maybe a ship could pass as an enemy ship, but what use would that be, first of all, human players know where their ships are and would begin to wonder why they can´t command it and finally shoot it down.

BUT, what about letting an enemy ship look like one of yours, the enemy killing his own ships hehe.
If i remember correctly, there was a ship in armada 2 that could do that.

Currently there´s no special weapon or whatever that uses holo-tech, definetly worth implementing in some form, given the frequency it is used in star trek.

[Tyler]

posted on February 21st, 2009, 6:43 pm

Last edited by Tyler on February 21st, 2009, 6:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

BUT, what about letting an enemy ship look like one of yours, the enemy killing his own ships hehe.
If i remember correctly, there was a ship in armada 2 that could do that.

The Holo-generator is used by the USS Incursion (before being copied into the Enterprise series) and I already asked about having the Incursion in FO. It is the base of operations for Star Trek: Away Team, took part in the Armada2's 8472 Invasion and the tech is stolen by Romulans in SFC3.