OT: Enterprise...What did you think?

[Suicide Junkie]

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and what was up with the plates going off line. Hope they fix the science up in that one. Or does armour go off line???????

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I take it this way:
- hull plating is ionized
- particle beams hit; the particles would tend to drain away the ion charge.
- When the officer says the plates are off-line, he just means the plate charge has been depleted, and the "power armor" is normal armor now.

Assuming that ionizing the hull plates has any defensive value, and that the atmosphere of the gas giant dosen't sap the charge faster than the bitty weapons fire.