'Booby Trap' and aceton assimilators

[JesterFace]

Aceton assimilators, what exactly are those things?
Those things kind of ruin 'Booby Trap' for me and take away interest to rewatch this episode because they don't make sense, at least to me.

So, Enterprise fires on the debris field with assimilators in it. No damage, radiation increases.
The assimilators just absorb the energy and that's it? Why not cover your spaceship with that kind of tech, if enemy fires at you it increases your power supply.
Also, the assimilators just drain energy from the Enterprise remotely by doing.... what?
Has something escaped me, I don't get those things. I want to like this episode, it isn't bad but this assimilator weirdness is just too much.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

It's Alien Tech that drains energy.

It's a plot device.

 

[Qonundrum]

The technology was un-get-at-able due to the nature of the device, like the sand on planet Virn. But the TNG episode has a perfect (and neato) little doomsday machine, or series of them, floating in space. Just a device that absorbs energy, like a sponge, it spews it back out in a way that nimbly kills everything around it. So even if one could get to it to capture and study it, it'd be well beyond too late. I'd theorize that each device has a remote power-on mechanism, encoded to make any ability to switch it off difficult at best. Or, due to its design, the moment the power-on sequence is triggered, that's it for sure.

It's almost like saying "Hey, did you know that one can strip vocals from a 60 year-old song and have their own instrumental?" We don't know quite how, but someone else did it. Like that plug-in for Audacity sound editor. Good gravy, that thing rocks... not that I don't mind the lyrics for the most part, but something with a beat that people really dig but then they hear the lyrics and retch or otherwise say how they don't like them... well, now there's a solution.

It's just that the sound editor won't do to you what the main baddie in the 1985 cult classic (read, "a bomb regarding general audiences") known as "Lifeforce" did. Yeah, this episode is really "Lifeforce - In Space!" in that regard. And Patrick Stewart was in that one too, hehehehe!

And here is one review of that half-baked little tangent:

Spoiler: Brandon Tenold review links, not rated G

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