Deepcrush wrote:
Sorry, I meant they just hadn't had time yet to take the design and work it out for other non future ships. ie... Voy was still the only ship to have it at the time.
Ah, right. We're in agreement, then.
Tyyr wrote:Or they aren't deployed constantly. It could be that being future tech, and powerful future tech, the Federation decided to keep them under lock and key somewhere safe only to whip them out if it looks like game over for the Federation again.
Possible. Though Starfleet does seem to have a more militarised view following the Dominion War. I'd be surprised if they didn't at least experiment with the stuff. I think it's more likely they simply can't recreate any of the tech.
Lazar wrote:I'm not sure if future-Janeway was really involved much with the refit - Seven reported that the armor and torpedoes were compatible, then they ordered Seven to perform the upgrade, and then it showed a shot of Voyager's engineering crew working.
Fitting it onto the ship and actualy building a set from scratch are two entirely different things. I can fit a new hard drive into my computer, but it doesn't mean I've any idea how to make one.
Lazar wrote:I find it hard to think that with that experience, and a working example, SF wouldn't be able to apply it to other ships.
Why not? Hand Leonardo Da Vinci the blueprints to an F-22 and he'd never be able to build one. This is a similar scenario. The tech's simply beyond them for now.
Lazar wrote:The only possibility that makes sense to me is that it was confiscated by the authorities for being future tech. An incredibly stupid thing to do, but after all it is SF.
That's beyond retarded, but yeah, I can see them doing it too. Still, I prefer my idea.
JudgeKing wrote:
In GTTS, It is stated by Seven of Nine that the armour was already adapted to and thus useless while the transphasic torpedoes were reserved for Borg only use. Why they didn't at least apply the armour to Federation ships is beyond me.
Yet again, non-canon.
And just how the fuck do you adapt to a lump of metal?
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