Monday, November 19, 2007
Book review-Resistance by JM Dillard
This is a well written book, set post Nemesis; it's also after the book Death in Winter, in which, among many other things, Picard and Crusher finally get together. Thisbook sees the return of Locutus and the Borg Queen, plenty of hand to cybernetic implant fighting, and redshirt deaths galore. This book begs the question- after all this time, if they know the Borg will adapt to their energy weapons, why do they not use bladed weapons? Why does Woorf not charge in with a bat-leth and just chop them up? Hubby posits that "the slow blade that penetrates the sheild will not penetrate the armor". (Now, who'se geeky enough to get that?)
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The shields are made to resist energy weapons, not physical ones, as shields are essentially a protective energy field. So energy can stop other forms of energy, but not physical objects. Same goes for the armor, it cann stop physical weapons, but not energy. However, the dumba$$es at Starfleet security are too stupid to have gotten past the primary shield so this theory has not actually been tested on the show.
Well actually I just made it up right now! Well thats this nerd's 2cents worth. Nice blog btw, book sounds cool. :)
Now that's exaclty what I would think!
And hey, thanks.
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