Sorry, you're mistaken Zeph.
The deflector shields only have to deal with interstellar dust and the odd stray hydrogen atom. This is stated in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.
The shields deal with physical impacts as well. There are episodes in TNG in which shuttles and probes have deflected off of the shields of the Enterprise, as well as containment force fields which are used to confine people in the brig, contain explosions, and used to protect against hull breaches. It's not just energy their shields deflect.
The best matches for the Enterprise D or E would be Surfer (given his speed, cosmic awareness, and versatility), Thor (given his magic), and a high end Lantern, who would still have to think very quickly so he's not out maneuvered.
Supes is a bit out of luck. Heat vision won't work. Ice breath won't work. Tossing large celestial bodies is not an instantaneous act Supes can pull off at a whim (maybe Pre-Crisis), and the Enterprise can destroy such objects as they are sent incoming with alterations to there phaser and torpedo arrays. Punching at the shields can be adjusted to and dealt with (ever heard of an "inertial dampener"😉, and his powers can be scanned and neutralized.
The Enterprise would not be able to move fast enough to avoid a meteor thrown at it at superspeed - not without going to warp: removing them off the battlefield.And blowing it to pieces? Not a chance. The Enterprise D fired on a Borg Cube in their first encounter (Q Who?) with the Borg cube not having any kind of shields up. Attacking bare metal the Enterprise only managed to leave some fairly large craters - each less than the size of the Enterprise.
You must not be familiar with Borg Tech either. Borg Cubes regenerate themselves from phaser and photon damage. You have to hit them at certain points in a specific manner in order to cause critical damage. Comparing that to blowing up a meteor is a very bad comparison. Besides, as I stated before, Supes doesn't effortlessly move cellestial bodies at will. Smaller pieces of debris, maybe, but he's not hucking planetoids around like Peyton Manning does a football anymore.
Well, at least not yet. Give DC time.
Unless Quantum torpedoes are XXXXX times more powerful than photons, the meteor is not being destroyed.
Believe me, they are. If you watched the show you'd know this.
The only thing I've every seen weaponry wise that'd deal enough damage to destroy a meteor twice the size of the ship is tri-cobaly devices, as used in the second episode of the first series of Voyager.
They've used the deflector dish array (the large satellite dish looking aparatus on the front of the Enterprise D and E) to emit anti-matter pulses and plasma at various times, as well as many other beams and pulses from the EM spectrum that are conceivably possible to emit. They've also used metaphasic shielding and phased cloaking technology. Meteors aren't an issue.
They've got a lot of tools.
This isn't your ordinary run of the mill "Kirk sleeps with green woman with polka dots while Spock saves the day" Enterprise.
Picard and crew hold it down.
[Damn, I'm a ****in Trek Nerd!!]
Illadelph - by deflector shields I mean the beam coming from the navigational deflector. And that's what scoob was on about too.
Of course the normal shields deal with physical impacts. Just not impacts of that size.
I've seen plenty of DS9 and Voyager and I've been unimpressed by Quantum torpedoes.
The pahsed cloaking was used in the episode with the Pegasus ship. In contravention of the Romulan peace treaty. They got rid of it after - so that's not being used.
The Borg can indeed regenerate themselves. I'm talking however about the initial damage in the episode Q Who - the first EVER episode with the Borg in it. The damage wasn't massive. Each crater was probably the size of the enterprise or so.
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I don't believe that Quantum torps or phasers could hurt injure Supes.
'Hurt' maybe. But not injure.
And the ship's computer couldn't keep targeting Supes with the speed of his movement anyway.
He'd just hit the deflector shields with super-punches a few hundred times a second. They'll soon wear down and then he'd rip the ship in half.
Unless it's now made of neutronium....
If you've watched the show, then you also know about metaphasic shielding: the shielding used to allow the Enterprise to enter the corona of a star and boost their power by over 300%. You'd also know that even with Supes being small and flying around quickly, his being in such a close proximity to the Enterprise and his biomatrix giving off a specific energy signature would allow Enterprises sensors to detect and analyze him. The short and long range scanners don't just scan in one direction, they're omnidirectional. They don't have to get a fix on Supes for a direct hit, they just need to figure out he's solar powered and neutralize him with a pulse.
Originally posted by Juntai
Superman would vibrate a frequency they couldn't see and scanners couldn't detect, he did it to a TELEPATH. So I'm sure he could do to tech.
Not exactly.
Telepathy is a specific range of frequencies within the EM spectrum that constitute brainwaves. Starfleet scanners span the entire EM spectrum and then some, even detecting tears in subspace, dimensional rifts, and time displacement. 'Vibrating' isn't going to mask where he is, they aren't trying to read or sense his mind (though Deanna Troy could), they can read his life readings and EM field generated by his biomatrix.
With their long range sensors they can detect life on planets lightyears away:
I think they can detect Supes within a kilometer of the ship.
I think the Enterprise's tracking computer could easily track Superman. Superman is fast but the Enterprise D and E can track objects moving at warp 9 which is WAY faster then Superman. The Enterprise's computer can do that because the computer core is surrounded by sub-space field's so the computer operates at speeds significantly faster then light. Silver Surfer and Green Lantern can possibly travel faster then the Enterprise and they have anergy attacks so I think they could take out the Enterprise A,B,C,D, or E. Also, I doubt Superman could dodge a photon torpedo because they too can travel at warp speeds. I don't know how good Superman's vision is but the Enterprise - D's torpedoes can target Superman 3.5 million kilometers away and if the Enterprise is traveling at warp 9 when they fire the torpedo then it will hit him at warp 9. There is no way he would even see it coming. Incase you don't know warp 9 isn't 9 times faster then light it's 1516 times the speed of light. Warp 9.9 is WAY faster then warp 9. Superman's only hope is if he's already very close to the Enterprise and starts wailing away at the shields. If the phasers have no effect on him and they are too close to use torpedoes they could try locking on with the transporter and use it to scatter his molecules in space or they could just go to warp and fly away.
Wow, I feel like a geek.
Illadelph - by deflector shields I mean the beam coming from the navigational deflector. And that's what scoob was on about too.Of course the normal shields deal with physical impacts. Just not impacts of that size.
I've seen plenty of DS9 and Voyager and I've been unimpressed by Quantum torpedoes.
The pahsed cloaking was used in the episode with the Pegasus ship. In contravention of the Romulan peace treaty. They got rid of it after - so that's not being used.
The Borg can indeed regenerate themselves. I'm talking however about the initial damage in the episode Q Who - the first EVER episode with the Borg in it. The damage wasn't massive. Each crater was probably the size of the enterprise or so.
Keep in mind that DS9 is not even a Star Fleet federation out post now if you compare USS Defiant you will see that this small ship packs allot of power than DS9 and Voyager was lost for year and years to come so maybe through time technological advances were made due to onslaught or impending invasion of the Borg.