Galaxy class Navigational deflector dish used as a weapon

[Roondar]

How powerful of a weapons is the Navagional Deflector dish of Galaxy class starship. In Star Terk Best Both world part one. It is said Navagional Deflector dish used weapon could destory both Galaxy class starship that using that and the borg cube in thoey.

The real problem is that we don't have a situation where the nav deflector blasted into another ship that way. Neither do we have a good situation where the deflector weapon was used on a well-defined natural object, such as an asteroid. Alas, the closest we have to that is the nav deflector being used to fire technobabble crap at a technobabble asteroid core in TNG's "The Cost of Living".

Fortunately, we do have statements of both an upper and lower nature about Trek power generation capabilities, and that can be used to give us an idea of the potential power range for the GCS nav deflector. The lower limits would place it in the single-digit terawatt range, while the upper limit would be well into the exawatt and zotawatt range!
-Mike

That makes sense, they've stated at least once that the deflector can handle the most energy out of all their systems (I'm assuming that the Warp Nacelles score just as highly though, but only the two combined and not each separately). On the other hand, we don't know if the deflector can really channel all of their output at once, or what the effeciency of such a push would be.

Still, perhaps we should do some number crunching on how much energy it would take to push aside interstellar dust and micro meteorites at the speeds needed to make them stop the E-D. Then we'll have an idea for the lower limit of deflector output in general use, which is better than what we have now ;)

[Mike DiCenso]

See my latest posting in the "Galaxy-Class & ISD Weaponry" thread and the link provided there, but we also can gain an idea of the enourmous amount of power generated by a GCS via calculatiing the approximate amount of power required to vaporize a stardrive section as was the case with the Yamato and E-D. Also note that in BoBW, it was clearly stated that in order to use the improvised weapon, the warp drive had to be taken offline. So they are diverting most, if not all of the warp core's power.
-Mike

[Jasonb]

The Fact Commander Riker reject the idea separating the saucer section from star drive to give Borg two targets because they might need the power from the saucer section this would say that Galaxy class Navigational deflector dish be able to handle even more power then warp drive could deliver. The fact Minimum vaporization energies for GCS star drive section: 3.98 gigatons this only be energy hit Galaxy class starship. Meaning the amount of energy hitting that target have to be more. The closer the one is to shock wave stronger it will hit them. We most remember Galaxy class starship only be firing from normal rang to for possible both Borg cube and the Galaxy class starship to be destroy. That why Commander Shelby' said that it might work if it fire farer way.