Was Tuvok bluffing when he said that Voyager's transporters rendered the Kazon weapons useless? BbL&#Uu +Prk L VvD 1Ww w6duCc ulCc y
In Star Trek: Voyager 2x07 "Maneuvers", Voyager beams several Kazon Majes off their ship. Tuvok and a complement of security officers are in the transporter room waiting for them, and the Majes draw their laser pistols.
TUVOK: Please stay where you are. You will find that our transporters have rendered your weapons useless.
This is the first time I'm aware of in which someone said that transporters could disable weapons. Was Tuvok bluffing*, given that the Kazon are unfamiliar with Federation technology? Or is this an actual capability that Voyager's transporters had?
* Tuvok indicated in "State of Flux" that he is very much capable of lying to complete a mission, as he did with joining the Maquis: "I was honest to my own convictions within the defined parameters of my mission."
2 Answers
This capability of the transporter was previously established in the the TNG episode "The Most Toys". Data begins to fire a disruptor, but is caught in a transport beam as the weapon begins to fire:
O'BRIEN: I'm reading a weapon in transit with Commander Data. It seems to have discharged, sir.
RIKER: Discharged?
O'BRIEN: I'm deactivating it.
And if memory serves, the Kazon immediately check their weapons after Tuvok makes his claim. If they were functional, I doubt they would have hesitated to fire.
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“the Kazon immediately check their weapons after Tuvok makes his claim” This was unclear to me; I thought they just looked at their weapons. But I can understand if they were checking for a telltale light or something. – Thunderforge 4 hours ago
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It's a bit subjective. I just figured that it was unlikely that they'd stand down without testing Tuvok's claim. – ApproachingDarknessFish 3 hours ago
Starfleet transporters from the TNG era onward include a device that can detect and disable an active weapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)#Capabilities_and_limitations
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2if you can flesh this out a little i think you've got a good answer here. – Himarm 8 hours ago