In Star Trek Online, Science ships fulfill the "controller" role, stymieing their opponents' attack capabilities through all sorts of science-related trickery. Scrambling sensors, creating spatial anomalies, and performing precision strikes to disable key components of an enemy ship are all in a day's work for a Science ship, and the first thing a good captain does upon assuming command is throw the "Starfleet Deflector Dish Standard Operations Manual" out the nearest airlock.
The second of three motivational posters I'm making for Star Trek Online. My buddy KirksOtherSon suggested "Science: I Can Kill You With My Mind" as an alternative motto, which is very good and will probably show up in a future poster somewhere.
I have seen something on Facebook recently that shows the written log of the engineer that is inspecting Voyager when it returns. All he can do is look at all the modifications of the Deflector Dish and have his jaw drop. He sees all the EXTRA stuff that it can do and all he can say is, "It wasnt supposed to do that!!!!! Its a deflector dish. All it does is send messages and generates the shield. It isnt supposed to generate a slipstream field or this, this, that, and the other (I cant remember right off the top of my head what all it said.) This pictured reminded me of it.
The alternate title your friend suggested seems to be what most of the Undine (and some Reman) infantry seem to be thinking most of the time during ground missions.
And I say, Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us 'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up
And I say,
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish
Thats the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish
The Klingons and the Romulans pose no threat to us
'Cause if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up