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Cost of Living http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/220.htm wrote:

[Bridge]

(at Red Alert) 

WORF: Forward tubes armed and ready, Captain. 

PICARD: Fire. 

WORF: A direct hit, sir. 

DATA: The asteroid has shattered. However, the core is still intact and still on a collision course with Tessen Three. 

RIKER: Is it big enough to cause a threat? 

DATA: Yes, sir. It is of sufficient size and density to cause planetwide damage. 

PICARD: Time to impact. 

DATA: It will reach the upper atmosphere in forty four seconds and impact on the planet eleven seconds later. 

RIKER: Ready torpedoes. 

WORF: Aye, sir. 

DATA: Sir, the core is composed of nitrium and chrondite. It is unlikely another photon torpedo will be of any effect. 

PICARD: Mister Worf, prepare a tractor beam. 

WORF: Aye, sir. 

DATA: Thirty seconds to impact. 

WORF: Captain, I am unable to get a positive lock with the tractor beam. There is magnetic field interference emanating from the core materials. 

PICARD: Activate a deflector dish. If we project a particle beam, we may be able to produce a disruptive nuclear effect within the core.

WORF: Aye, sir.

DATA: Impact in seventeen seconds.

WORF: Particle beam activated. The target has been destroyed, Captain.

mojo wrote:looks like an ordinary early 90s scifi tv explosion to me, complete with huge sparks showing that the actual explosion was tiny. what's the problem again?