I suggest to merge this article with ablative hull armor under the name "Ablative Armor Generator (Technology)" since they both describe nearly th same thing. Or at least one of the articles should be a paragraph in the other one. --Maxwell Fawkes 13:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- I am against a merge as this is a separate thing from the generated hull. I do however suggest renaming this article, as the canon term used in the episode was "ablative generator" by the computer no less, not "ablative hull armor generator". --Pseudohuman 21:12, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I am for renaming to "ablative generator". But I am still for the merge too. Ok, there are seperate articles for shields, shield generator, phaser, phaser array... So you are correct that the armor and the armor generator are different. But phasers and shields are big topics, every series has those and because of that we have a lot of information about them. The armor only appears in one episode. I just dont think this merits two articles, one for the armor and one for the generator. --Maxwell Fawkes 10:45, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, the command was "deploy armor", responded to with "ablative generator is off-line," so the generator is only a part of the whole ("armor technology") and isn't what is directly protecting the ship ("the armor technology"). In fact, there is really no indication that it even has the same function as the ablative hull armor (aka ablative armor), which was meant to dissipate weapons' fire, but rather describe the removable ability of the hull armor. --Alan 12:54, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
"ablative hull armor (aka ablative armor)"? Now you mixed two different articles. The Ablative Generator (→ Ablative armor hull generator) deploys the armor (→ ablative hull armor), it has indeed nothing to do with the ablative armor of the 24th century (wich the Defiant and the Prometheus have). But I sill think the armor generator and its deployable armor (there two articles Ablative armor hull generator, ablative hull armor) should be merged either into "ablative generator" or "armor technology". At the very least, there wont be three articles with confusing names. --Maxwell Fawkes 15:46, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
- Indeed. As there is some sort of central ablative generator which is never seen but is mentioned, an array of external projectors that are only shown but not named and the armor itself which is only called the armor. We should have only one article about the one thing that is actually named canonically and specifically, namely the "ablative generator" and then mention all the other parts of this future tech there, instead of inventing names for things that are not canonically named. --Pseudohuman 15:57, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Re: "ablative hull armor (aka ablative armor)" The content is wrong, not my usage.. these articles should be under the same name, with the content with the one that matches this article merged with this. --Alan
- Then I agree. I think the Prometheus' computer says "ablative hull armor" when it reads the specs. To be perfectly clear now: Merge the current articles ablative hull armor with ablative armor hull generator under the new name "ablative generator" or "armor technology", leave ablative armor untouched, possibly rename to "ablative hull armor", whichever is "more" canon.