Man, Star Fleet is in a bad way if they're using transport technology to place explosives inside enemy ships. 👀
It feels almost like this episode broke some rule, like when Holdo light speeded the frigate into the Star Destroyer. I think #IntoDarkness did it too? 😖
The point of beaming the torpedo to the Borg ship was to disable it *without* destroying it. Didn't work, but that was the idea, and it was a fairly sound one.
The Borg ship in question was just a probe, easy enough for Voyager to destroy the old-fashioned way, but that wasn't the plan.
And it was an okay plan. I mean, how else do you do that? Cut through half the ship with a phaser and hope the phaser beam doesn't accidentally hit the warp core?
@argv_minus_one @kcarr2015 Yes, I remember the episode. However, from a practical standpoint, Starfleet should consider beaming torpedoes onto every hostile ship that they can.
We gave you a chance, and now you are done. This attitude would have saved so many Federation citizens and Starfleet personnel over the years.
Beaming over a torpedo is only possible if the target's shields are down and it has no other transporter-jamming capability.
At that point, you've got the target dead to rights. If you want it exploded, you can just fire the torpedo at the target's warp core. If you want it disabled and it's not a Borg ship, you can beam its command crew right off the bridge and into a holding cell. No need for delicate torpedo-transporter shenanigans.
Perhaps shields can be bypassed by all manner of nonsense, but ordinary transporters are canonically not on the list (unless they have an exploitable weakness, like the Nebula class shields).
@argv_minus_one @Jam123
I understand what Voyager's goal was, but it seems like beaming weapon into another ship would be one of those things that, if possible, everybody would already be doing it, including the Borg. 🤷♂️
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