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minus-squareTattorack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoKlingons use it almost exclusively as an offensive technology. Romulans use it to misinform and to be the boogy-man. These aren’t Starfleet or Federation ideals.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agothe big shields are used primarily in combat. thus they are offensive technology.
minus-squareThebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoShields are, and always have been defensive. Weapons are offensive.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 months agothe shield that displaces light is an offensive technology
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months agoAnd starfleet could put it on ships designed to rescue refugees in hostile territory.
minus-squareAutonomous@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoyeah! they could kill all the people displacing those refugees the first place without the refugees even knowing about their benefactors.
Klingons use it almost exclusively as an offensive technology.
Romulans use it to misinform and to be the boogy-man.
These aren’t Starfleet or Federation ideals.
the big shields are used primarily in combat. thus they are offensive technology.
Shields are, and always have been defensive. Weapons are offensive.
the shield that displaces light is an offensive technology
And starfleet could put it on ships designed to rescue refugees in hostile territory.
yeah! they could kill all the people displacing those refugees the first place without the refugees even knowing about their benefactors.