If you recall, fighting the Borg, they kept talking about shifting the shield harmonic frequency randomly, and did the same with their weapons, to attack. (DS9: "The Jem'Hadar" Star Trek Generations) The frequencies of shields were not usually discernible without examining the controls on board the ship deploying them, meaning that it was very difficult to tune weapons to the exact frequency of an opponent's shields to bypass them. Shields operated within a range of shield frequencies to allow certain specific types of energy and matter to pass through, or to increase the effectiveness of blocking them. Much like dealing with the 60 cycle hum from sending data along a power line IRL. if you know the frequency that the interference will be at (assuming a basic pattern, after that), you can adjust your carrier wave to match it, and it, in effect, becomes non-existant. That's why you hear about getting a transporter 'lock' and such.)īUT. (Fortunately, there are inherent protections against sending in those conditions in modern transporters. Think of the transporter signal like any other data transmission method run it through a random (or pseudo random) interference pattern, and it will become meaningless noise. Well, if you are refering to defense screens (like the Deflector Shields on the various ships), it's a matter of frequency resonance.
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