"But they had their shields up!"
"I found a hole. And I extruded them through it."
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2023
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"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."
I 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.
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.
"It made a really gross sucking sound and stretched them out like spaghetti"
What the hell happened to my brain that I can imagine O'brien saying this with absolute clarity?
Alien Resurrection tiny hull breach scene.
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.
Next 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.
To be fair, he acts as if plagued by some horrifying post-traumatic stress on every episode, before or after this, so I didn't expect a change.
Oh I'll just put this trauma over here with the rest of the traumas.
It's fine, the plot of the next (and all subsequent) episodes forgot about that for him.
Quark: "I call dibs on the abandoned ship!"
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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.
The 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.
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.
This universe is the best universe
At the point of boarding parties (when the shields are down) you could do this.
That ending card 🤣
I had to hum the jingle that plays or else it didn't feel right lol.
It's the new mic drop
More Breaking Brien please.
I legitimately spit coffee after reading this one. Nicely done.
Shit. 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.
It 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)
maybe the klingons and starfleet worked out rules against doing that to each other.
starfleet because they don't want an escalation and the klingons for honour reasons
Maybe, but the Romulans and Cardassians would do it in a heart beat.
not sure about the romulans
You know this isn't canon because Sisco looks upset.
He's upset, but he can live with it.
That's right.