• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    From TNG, “Conundrum”:

    PICARD: Tactical analysis, Mister Data.

    DATA: The pods are equipped with fusion-generated pulse lasers and minimal shielding.

    RIKER: Not much power there.

    PICARD: Forward shields to maximum. Lock phasers on the sentry pods. Prepare to return fire.

    WORF: Shields up. Phasers locked on targets.

    PICARD: Full impulse. Take us straight through them.

    DATA: We are through the perimeter, sir.

    RIKER: That was too easy.

    WORF: We have yet to encounter any battleships. They may lie ahead.

    PICARD: Load all torpedo bays. Ready phasers.

    WORF: Aye, sir.

    MACDUFF: Approaching Central Command.

    PICARD: Mister Data, scan for defences.

    DATA: I am picking up no vessels, no additional sentry pods.

    RIKER: Optimal firing range in fifty five seconds.

    MACDUFF: Phaser banks ready. Loading torpedoes.

    PICARD: What are the defensive capabilities of the Central Command?

    DATA: Armaments consist of four laser cannons and thirty nine cobalt fusion warheads with magnetic propulsion. Defensive shield output is four point three kilojoules.

    RIKER: One photon torpedo ought to do it.

    TROI: Data, how many people on that station?

    DATA: Fifteen thousand, three hundred eleven.

    MACDUFF: We’re within range, Captain.

    PICARD: Stand by.

    MACDUFF: Waiting for your order, sir.

    TROI: Captain, this isn’t right.

    MACDUFF: The rest of our forces are depending on us.

    RIKER: How can our mortal enemy be over a hundred years behind us in weapons technology?

    …and in “The Outrageous Okana”:

    WORF: Still no response. Captain, they are now locking lasers on us.

    RIKER: Lasers?

    WORF: Yes, sir.

    PICARD: Lasers can’t even penetrate our navigation shields. Don’t they know that?

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      RIKER: How can our mortal enemy be over a hundred years behind us in weapons technology?

      I see they have met the Russians too…