Navigational Deflector Dish

Navigational Deflector Dish

This is the large dish at the front of each federation starship. It’s stated purpose is to provide a low level deflector shield around the front of the ship to deflect fast moving particles when the ship is travelling at warp.

Entering warp with the deflector dish inoperable will cause significant damage to the ship. This is calculated every 1 second in warp for each system on the ship (due to the fact that a particle would be able to punch straight through the hull its damage may appear anywhere).

Speed	% Change of Damage per second	Amount of damage
Warp 1 and up	(Warp Speed * 10)	1 to 10%

In addition, each crew member has a chance of being injured (or killed) every 1 second as defined by:

Speed	% Change of Damage per second	Amount of damage
Warp 1 and up	Warp Speed² (i.e. warp speed* warp speed)	1 to 10%

Dev Notes

In Star Trek the deflector dish appears to be a Deus ex machine – that can be adapted to be everything from a super weapon for disabling Borg cubes right up to an inverse tachyon emitter than can wipe the human race from history.

As far as I can recall, all of the other uses for the dish did rely on it being modified (by an engineering team). So we may make other purposes for the dish available in future iterations of the simulator, but for the time being we will retain its original purpose (deflecting particles at warp).