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Cloaking a planet? Really?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited February 2012 in Ten Forward
So I was watching When the Bough Breaks the other night and I thought Data's explanation for a cloaked planet was stupid. He told Wesley that like a Romulan cloaking device, the planet bends light around it to appear invisible in space. But that wouldn't explain the presence of the planet's gravity well. So are the sensors that bad they completely miss the presence of a large gravitational pull?

Then again, the sensors missed seeing a giant hole in the ground. So maybe holes in mass and space are their blind spot.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Creative writing?
    (well the other way around really. Technobabble crits for 5000!)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Sounds similar to a Green Lantern story, where the Green Lantern was accused of destroying a planet, it wasn't until the end that the defense attorney pointed out that that planet's moon was still orbiting "Something", it was then everyone realized the planet was still there, and only made to looked destroyed because someone wanted the Green Lantern out of the way. You'd think someone would have noticed that before hand, just like in the case made by the OP
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    The question I have is what happens when something warps into the cloaked world ? :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I don't think it is a problem with the sensors. I think it is something they don't actively search for. Think of the episodes relics. Both the USS Jenolen and the enterprise missed the gravity of the Dyson sphere until they dropped out of warp. The only time I can think of where they actively searched for gravity changes was in Generations when they were in astrometrics trying to find out where the Nexus was traveling. They only figured it out because they were looking for recent changes. That included minor course corrections.

    True the planet would still put out gravity but I think the ships auto adjust for it and a Dysons Sphere would put out more gravity then a cloaked planet.
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