I never understood why people think the borg would want to nuke the pheonix instead of just stopping the flight.
They only have a sphere and limited members so why blow up a ship that while uber basic compared to their tech is still a warp capable ship with parts they can assimilate and use?.
The low yield makes perfect sense at least to a borg way of thinking as it stops first contact but preserves the materials ect.
A) Taste of Armageddon: Kirk orders the Enterprise to fire on cities, when an exaton would be enough to eradicate a significant part of the planet completely. Destroying a city, of course, can be done with low kilotons.
A planet of cities, there are thousands upon thousands of cities on earth and why would they need to fire at fll power to destroy them if kilotons are all that is needed.
Lots of fast kiloton shots would be better i would have thought.
B) The Die is Cast: 20 Romulan and Cardassian warships fire upon a planet. The bombardment shows no fireballs, no ejecta, and a dim illumination. This is definitely not a kiloton event.
Are these really the same guys that go and and on about ST NDF weapons whe it suits them?.
NDF and subsurface detonations explain all that.
C) Starship Down: A 12.5 megajoule KE impact punctures right the Defiant's hull. Doubtless it has a much stronger hull than any other UFP ship too.
I tought the torps were specifically designed to penitrate hulls and then explode.
The torp had no damage to it at all where it penitrated the hull and a glowing tip, it was obviously a form of AP system.
D) Nemesis: Even though the Scimitar has nearly full shields, an undamaged hull, a KE event no more than 5 kilotons not only defeats its shields, but destroys its hull as well.
FEH, no shield flash = no shields......visuals > dialog.....or is that only for TDIC?...
Also at full impulse and the scimitar moving forwards as well (as seen in the clip) the momentum of shps at impulse can move small moons.......
E) Insurrection: Two Son’A ships, who together can defeat the Enterprise-E, and take quantum torpedoes without worries, are destroyed by the chemical incendiary explosion that results from the detonation of that metrion gas. Chemical reactions like those are a joke even in comparison to fission/fusion reactions, let alone those absurd M/AM reactions.
Chemicals that can give eternal youth?, can we get a quantification on that gas please?.
F) First Contact: A Borg Sphere; a large Borg ship that laughs at Alpha Quadrant races and their ship, fires upon the Phoenix silo. If it had even kiloton (or even sub-kiloton) weaponry, the entire area would have been destroyed, but instead we see explosions in the megajoule range detonate all over the place. Don't even try to say that it's a lifeboat and thus doesn't have any weaponry, because then why would the Borg arm it all?
They intened to stop first contact and firing low shots did that (as per assimilated earth).
The borg would not want to waste a warp capable ship when it could be assinilated or its components used.
G) Skins of Evil: A photon torpedo detonates on a planet, it creates a mushroom cloud that lasts less than a second. This is an extremely low kiloton event at best.
Fireball size gives us high gigatons to low teratons.
H) For the Uniform: Same as above, except the quantum torpedoes last just slightly longer, but the difference in firepower is barely noticeable.
Warhead changed to a biologiocal weapon....
I) Survivors: A 400 gigawatt blast takes out the Enterprise D's shields, and the crew is not really all that surprised by this.
A god did that it cannot be quantified and is also contradicted by more reliable material.
J) Alliances: The Voyager not one, not two, but three photon torpedoes upon a ship 2 stories above a building. The ship is threatened enough to leave the area.
1. The ship was a kazon shuttle,
2. phasers would have melted the people below if the ship had moved before the beam was expended.
3. If they had used anything but ultra low yield torps they would have killed the people in the summit, and destroyed the entire town/city....kinda defeating the object that was to save lives.
K) Dauphin: A single terawatt has a bigger output than the entire Enterprise D.
Than the E-D's communication system.
L) Night Terrors: A measly hydrogen explosion is stronger than the Enterprise D's photon torpedoes and phasers combined.
Who said it was the hydrogen that exploded and not the stuff the other guys had that packed the big punch?.
M) Descent Part II: A coronal mass ejection violently destroys a Borg Cube. Even assuming the strongest one from our solar system (1x10E^25 J) had hit the Borg cube with 1 40 forty billionth of what it is worth, then 900 kilotons can destroy a Borg Cube. We also know that plasma is weaker against ships in ST, remember?
It was not a borg cube it was a ship assimilated by lore and fucked up borg.
N) Legacy: Carving a hole 1 meter in diameter and 1.6 kilometers in depth over 14 seconds requires 660 tons exerted each second.
Try 2500-3000km deep and a lot wider.
O) Timeless: Voyager impacts the surface with a KE event of 200 tons, and yet it receives considerably more damage than what you usually see several photon torpedoes or phaser beams do to a ship.
Voyager is structurally sound, the crew die due to inertial dampener failure.
P) Genesis: Photon Torpedoes that have their output enhanced by 11% only fragment asteroids barely bigger than themselves.
The guidance system failed and given what we see so did the detonation circuits for the M/AM.
