[geoschmo]

Originally posted by dmm:
Unless someone probed it with LongRangeSensors. At that point you'd have to run the damage subroutine and keep track of it.

Or you have a Trek-no-babble answer for that and say long range scanners detect what's inside a ship based off their energy emmisions, and a derelict hsip has no energy emmisions, so is immune to long range scanners.