why does Geordi...
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Because it looks cool? (And looks even cooler when the forcefield fails.)
Probably 'cuz he's tired of it always blowing up in his face?
So why doesn't he spend any money on surge protectors? and why does he buy computer terminals that seems to be made of low-grade brittle glass?
It's the bureaucrats' fault...
Luke Lightsaber
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At least he didn't eject it.
I think the last two TNG films would have been vastly better if Geordi had performed the "LaForge Maneuver."
No idea... especially since it seems silly to have a force field that's powerful enough to contain an explosion of the ship's main reactor.
Does the Enterprise-E even have a door like that?
Oh, I'd think it would be more for protecting the core against outside forces.
And while ST:NEM apparently tries to pass it off as an innovation, it has probably been a standard feature all along instead. Remember how the Defiant had a forcefield around the otherwise exposed core as a matter of course, as seen in "The Adversary"?
For all we know, the E-D and E-A had similar setups, and we just didn't witness those moments when the respective engineers turned those fields on or off, much like we didn't witness them blowing their noses.
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The likeliest explanation would be to protect the crew and the core itself from possible energy discharges/overloads that tend to happen when the ship/core take a beating.
Torres did so after the battle with the holograms in season 7 for example to protect the core from being destroyed.
No forcefield would be able to contain a warp core explosion.
There was an early season Voyager episode in which the crew dreamed for most of the episode, and during the episode there was a warp core breach in progress.
Janeway activated a force-field in order to attempt reduce the explosion, and after she tested her theory that they were all asleep, Torres flat out stated a warp-core explosion should have destroyed the ship if any of it were real.
So the forcefield was probably there as a latest innovation in order to protect the core and the crew from potential energy discharges either from the core itself or the surrounding systems.
The likeliest explanation would be to protect the crew and the core itself from possible energy discharges/overloads that tend to happen when the ship/core take a beating.
Torres did so after the battle with the holograms in season 7 for example to protect the core from being destroyed.
No forcefield would be able to contain a warp core explosion.
There was an early season Voyager episode in which the crew dreamed for most of the episode, and during the episode there was a warp core breach in progress.
Janeway activated a force-field in order to attempt reduce the explosion, and after she tested her theory that they were all asleep, Torres flat out stated a warp-core explosion should have destroyed the ship if any of it were real.
So the forcefield was probably there as a latest innovation in order to protect the core and the crew from potential energy discharges either from the core itself or the surrounding systems.
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Probably not a bad idea.
They did in Insurrection. It's in the process of dropping in the background of this screencap.
(The scene in question is when Geordi and Riker discuss dumping the warp core to close the technobabble in the technobabble caused by the illegal So'na technobabble weapons.)
Well, in STVI the E-A engineering section looked pretty similar to the E-D so this theory makes a lot of sense.
Troi was about to ram the Enterprise with a strange Reman ship that they picked up in a nebula and Geordi wanted the ship to have maximum protection against any STIs -- Ship-to-Ship Transmitted Infections.
Nah, we should refer to it how the writers on TNG did in their scripts. The TECH the TECH.
Shouldn't they be on the other side?
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