Comment on Overachieve much?
blegeg@lemmy.world 9 months agoI know it wasn’t, but in my head I always figured this was the cloak of the cloaked minefield in front of the wormhole. Then the dominion couldn’t just fire a torpedo and blow up the grid. That made the minefield make more sense to me.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The minefield works because of the cloaked and the self replicating mines. You blow up 100, the 100 nearest replicate invisibly to reform the “net.”
They really should just build endless arrays of these around the station. Just deactivate them when not in battle, and publish “clear lanes.”
Wartime? Mines rearrange themselves, then enable. No more clear lanes.
blegeg@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yea the only thing that didn’t satisfy me with the self replicating is the “they can just… keep replacing themselves? Man replicators really are broken” and how fast is this replication? Like if the dominion wanted to send 1,000 ships through and it could only take out 5-10 before exhausting why not just send the ships through.
But if the mines were phased and could detonate when the big ships are through, or even inside the big ships, they’d think twice. Again, just weird head canon I had to explain the minefields effectiveness in the show haha
milkisklim@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’d buy that theory for a dollar.
My headcanon was that the non blown up mines could replicate new mines from the wreckage of exploded mines and the victim ships. That should get more material and have a net positive material/ energy system.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I’m sure the wormhole also enjoys some sort of radiation for the mines to harvest.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah, the more you think about it, the more bullshitty it becomes as is. In the show, they cut to O’Brien working on the mines, and they are just photon torpedoes. They likely just used the default “explosive weapon” prop, but if you push the in universe lore a bit, it seems like they just invented cloaked, multiplying photon torpedoes, which would seem like a really, really awesome weapon to equip every ship in the fleet with.
Bird of prey just decloak? Fire one self replicating photon torpedo, which becomes two in flight. Hell, shoot far enough away and yall fire one and get 12 when they hit. Sounds like a good improvement.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
That’s what the Klingons were doing around Bajor. Just seeing up cloaked minutes that can be activated when they’re not longer neutral.
Kind of cowardly of the Klingons to rob their enemy of a chance at honor though.