"But they had their shields up!"
"I found a hole. And I extruded them through it."
90"I didn't say I beamed them out in one piece, or all pieces at the same time. It was a small hole after all."
50"Why waste energy transporting the whole body when just the head will do?"
1I only beamed up a very small part of them through the hole .... not the whole of them ..... I don't need to move all of you to stop you ... all I need to do is move your brain.
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Interestingly, this is actually a thing on the show. In one TNG episode they figure out how to open a small window in their own shields to beam through. It becomes standard procedure in TNG, DS9, and VOY after that. Presumably, you can exploit an enemy ship attempting that.
24"It made a really gross sucking sound and stretched them out like spaghetti"
19What the hell happened to my brain that I can imagine O'brien saying this with absolute clarity?
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Alien Resurrection tiny hull breach scene.
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What are you gonna do? Force me to experience 20 years of imprisonment and watching my best friend die and put in so deeply in my brain that the memories can't be erased by any known medical technology, then tell me to get back to work in my menial starfleet job with an insufferable wife and child who will probably never understand my pain and will grow increasingly distant? Haha that would be incredibly fucked up, wouldn't it.
76Next episode: completely forgets about the incredibly traumatic, horrifying incident and never mentions it again and is never plagued by even a hint of post-traumatic stress.
41It's fine, the plot of the next (and all subsequent) episodes forgot about that for him.
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Quark: "I call dibs on the abandoned ship!"
43Good lord, this place has been on a roll lately. I'm so glad I subscribed.
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O'Brien is a master of the Transporter. Actually this could be a legit tactic in fights as soon as the shields drop just beam the bridge crew out to space.
27The kasan/seska do something akin to this in voyager when they gain access to the tech for a short time.
It's not an active battle, but it was the heads of a rival sect that would not join a warband. They were transported into space and left to die.
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Yeah they never really use transporters and replicators to their fullest capabilities. Knock out their shields, beam the enemy crew to the brig (if you're good) or into space (if you're not so good).
Why bother with torpedoes? Just teleport bombs right on the enemy target.
They had self-replicating mines on DS9, why not self-replicating computer controlled starships? Send infinite waves of automated starships at the enemy?
Have your most elite Jem Hadar squad stand on the transporter pad and beam down infinite copies of them down to the planet. They're cloning them anyway, doesn't seem like the Dominion would have moral qualms about this.
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16For a while in star gate Atlantis humans were just teleporting nukes into enemy ships until they mcguffined a solution.
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12Yeah that's trending towards the grey goo scenario, isn't it?
But it's also similar to how the Borg operate too. Also I think the OST had the Doomsday Machine episode that had something about a weapon killing the civilization that made it. I think there was a TNG episode like that too.
So it's kinda covered, just not exactly the replicator scenario. But that's fine, it's better to have characters as a threat rather than machines. Controversial opinion, but I even found the Borg to be boring after Best of Both Worlds.
10Of course, there’s always the threat of them going rogue or being taken over by someone else.
In lower decks they explored this a little with the Texas class automated ships. They weren't self-replicating but they showcased the risks of such a technology.
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This universe is the best universe
24At the point of boarding parties (when the shields are down) you could do this.
22That ending card 🤣
21I had to hum the jingle that plays or else it didn't feel right lol.
9It's the new mic drop
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More Breaking Brien please.
20I legitimately spit coffee after reading this one. Nicely done.
16Shit. What a plot hole. Ok so maybe there’s a benevolent, neutral, sentient race of beings that actually control teleportation physics in the universe and hence don’t allow these sort of shenanigans to occur.
4It isnt really. Usually in a combat situation their shields are up, making transporter operation impossible (at least without fancy tricks you dont have time for in a combat situation)
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You know this isn't canon because Sisco looks upset.
4He's upset, but he can live with it.
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That's right.
1this was like the don't dead open inside, and it gave me a stroke trying to read it drinking my first coffee this morning
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41Huh? Top to bottom, left to right, text is over the character saying it. I think that coffee hasn't yet taken effect.
32You read it like a comic.
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