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| - A navigational deflector was a device that allowed to clear the flight path of a starship of interstellar dust and other space-floating debris. (Spacedock: The Advanced Starship and Construction Manual) When a ship possessed a secondary hull, the navigational deflector was usually installed on the fore section of the secondary hull.
- On Federation starships the deflector was usually located at the front of the secondary hull and typically glows with a blue energy. Because of the deflectors ability to produce large amounts of energy and particles to very tight specifications they have often been utilised with minor modifications to help solve a variety of tasks: the USS Enterprise-B's dish was once modified to simulate a photon torpedo, the USS Enterprise-D's deflector was once modified to channel an extremely large amount of energy in the hopes of using it as a weapon against the Borg, the USS Defiant's deflector was once modified to be used as a single shot phaser, and the USS Voyager's deflector has been used to open a rift into fluidic space. (TNG movie: Star Trek: Generations; TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds,
- The deflector commonly took the form of a dish-shaped force beam generator containing heavy-duty subspace accelerators at the extreme forward end of the vessel's secondary hull. It performed its primary function by emitting low-power deflector shields to deflect microscopic particles and higher-powered deflector beams and/or tractor beams to deflect larger objects. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Alliances", "Shattered")
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| - The deflector commonly took the form of a dish-shaped force beam generator containing heavy-duty subspace accelerators at the extreme forward end of the vessel's secondary hull. It performed its primary function by emitting low-power deflector shields to deflect microscopic particles and higher-powered deflector beams and/or tractor beams to deflect larger objects. (Star Trek: First Contact; VOY: "Alliances", "Shattered") On the Constitution-class starships, the navigational deflector was a combined system with the ships' main duotronic sensors. (TNG: "Datalore" computer screen; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations" computer screen) According to Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (p. 87), the long-range sensor array was a key element of the navigational deflector system as it was used to detect and track objects in the ship's flight path. The deflector beams caused a great deal of subspace distortion, so the sensor arrays were placed in a circular fashion around the deflector beam emitter array. A deflector's energy could be extended outward to protect other ships. In 2266, the USS Enterprise extended its deflector shield around Harry Mudd's stolen class J starship, Stella, to temporarily protect it from asteroids while its crew were transported to safety. (TOS: "Mudd's Women" ) The 24th century Federation starship navigational deflectors could easily deflect laser fire. (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona" ) Ordinarily, Federation starships were equipped with a single external deflector dish. In the 2250s these devices were sometimes known as the ships' meteorite beam. (TOS: "The Cage" ) In the late 24th century, some starships were known to have more than one deflector. One example of this was the Intrepid-class, which had its main deflector located between the extreme forwards of decks 10 through 13, while the secondary deflector was located on the extreme forward of deck 6. (VOY: "Caretaker") The deflector of the USS Enterprise-E was charged with antiprotons while the Borg were modifying it. This proved to be a potential hazard as particle weapons fire hitting the deflector could destroy much of the ship. (Star Trek: First Contact)
- A navigational deflector was a device that allowed to clear the flight path of a starship of interstellar dust and other space-floating debris. (Spacedock: The Advanced Starship and Construction Manual) When a ship possessed a secondary hull, the navigational deflector was usually installed on the fore section of the secondary hull.
- On Federation starships the deflector was usually located at the front of the secondary hull and typically glows with a blue energy. Because of the deflectors ability to produce large amounts of energy and particles to very tight specifications they have often been utilised with minor modifications to help solve a variety of tasks: the USS Enterprise-B's dish was once modified to simulate a photon torpedo, the USS Enterprise-D's deflector was once modified to channel an extremely large amount of energy in the hopes of using it as a weapon against the Borg, the USS Defiant's deflector was once modified to be used as a single shot phaser, and the USS Voyager's deflector has been used to open a rift into fluidic space. (TNG movie: Star Trek: Generations; TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"; DS9 episode: "Starship Down"; VOY episode: "Scorpion, Part II") In 2372, Lieutenant Sean Hawk suggested several modifications that could be made to the USS Enterprise-E's main deflector that would allow the ship to travel at a higher velocity within the high particle density of the Pantera Nebula. Realising Hawk's potential, Captain Jean-Luc Picard ordered him to look in to designing and implementing those modifications. (TNG eBook: A Sea of Troubles)
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