Why didn't Picard use a tractor beam to stop the borg sphere from going back in time?
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After the Enterprise engages with the Borg cube, it witnesses a Borg sphere heading towards Earth and then go back in time.
Picard knows all too well the Borg are not allies and any Borg entering federation space must be investigated and handled accordingly.
Why didn't he deploy a tractor beam to stop the sphere from moving?
His ship and others just came off a fight with the Borg cube, they may not have sufficient weapons to attack the sphere, but they should've have held it in place and call for backup.
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After the Enterprise engages with the Borg cube, it witnesses a Borg sphere heading towards Earth and then go back in time.
Picard knows all too well the Borg are not allies and any Borg entering federation space must be investigated and handled accordingly.
Why didn't he deploy a tractor beam to stop the sphere from moving?
His ship and others just came off a fight with the Borg cube, they may not have sufficient weapons to attack the sphere, but they should've have held it in place and call for backup.
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Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
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@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
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Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
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@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
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After the Enterprise engages with the Borg cube, it witnesses a Borg sphere heading towards Earth and then go back in time.
Picard knows all too well the Borg are not allies and any Borg entering federation space must be investigated and handled accordingly.
Why didn't he deploy a tractor beam to stop the sphere from moving?
His ship and others just came off a fight with the Borg cube, they may not have sufficient weapons to attack the sphere, but they should've have held it in place and call for backup.
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After the Enterprise engages with the Borg cube, it witnesses a Borg sphere heading towards Earth and then go back in time.
Picard knows all too well the Borg are not allies and any Borg entering federation space must be investigated and handled accordingly.
Why didn't he deploy a tractor beam to stop the sphere from moving?
His ship and others just came off a fight with the Borg cube, they may not have sufficient weapons to attack the sphere, but they should've have held it in place and call for backup.
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Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
1
@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
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Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
1
@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
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Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
1
1
@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
1
Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
1
1
@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
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Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards Earth. While it wasn't specifically stated in the movie or in the novelization, it is highly likely that it had it's shields up, so a tractor beam would have been useless.
It is stated, once the Enterprise emerges from the temporal vortex, that, among other systems, their shields are down due to the shaky trip through the vortex. The Sphere probably had the same problem since one volley of four quantum torpedoes could destroy it.
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Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
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Tethering themselves to the cube would pose a higher risk of being boarded, and assimilated (resistance is futile, we are borg, you will join the collective, your mind will become our mind, we are borg... Sort of thing) Also, having the tractor beam touch the cube poses the risk of their technology adapting, with their hyper analysis granted to them via a collective mind. It would only be a matter of minutes before they would break free or even find a way to reverse the tractor beam and utilize it as a weapon.
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+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
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Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards Earth. While it wasn't specifically stated in the movie or in the novelization, it is highly likely that it had it's shields up, so a tractor beam would have been useless.
It is stated, once the Enterprise emerges from the temporal vortex, that, among other systems, their shields are down due to the shaky trip through the vortex. The Sphere probably had the same problem since one volley of four quantum torpedoes could destroy it.
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
add a comment |
up vote
10
down vote
accepted
Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards Earth. While it wasn't specifically stated in the movie or in the novelization, it is highly likely that it had it's shields up, so a tractor beam would have been useless.
It is stated, once the Enterprise emerges from the temporal vortex, that, among other systems, their shields are down due to the shaky trip through the vortex. The Sphere probably had the same problem since one volley of four quantum torpedoes could destroy it.
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
add a comment |
up vote
10
down vote
accepted
up vote
10
down vote
accepted
Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards Earth. While it wasn't specifically stated in the movie or in the novelization, it is highly likely that it had it's shields up, so a tractor beam would have been useless.
It is stated, once the Enterprise emerges from the temporal vortex, that, among other systems, their shields are down due to the shaky trip through the vortex. The Sphere probably had the same problem since one volley of four quantum torpedoes could destroy it.
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
Tractor beams are easily shaken off and cannot work if the target has their shields up. While the Cube was destroyed, the Sphere appeared undamaged when it came out of the Cube and headed towards Earth. While it wasn't specifically stated in the movie or in the novelization, it is highly likely that it had it's shields up, so a tractor beam would have been useless.
It is stated, once the Enterprise emerges from the temporal vortex, that, among other systems, their shields are down due to the shaky trip through the vortex. The Sphere probably had the same problem since one volley of four quantum torpedoes could destroy it.
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
3,0411047
answered 11 hours ago
Sava
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3,0411047
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
add a comment |
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
Once it made it though the other side, given that the shields were down, couldn't they use a tractor beam to hold the sphere in place and warp somewhere while they figure out what to do with the sphere in tow? They could go off somewhere and never encounter Zefram Cochrane.
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago
1
1
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
Towing something at warp is incredibly dangerous even in the best of cases. The Sphere wouldn't have come along willingly, making it even more dangerous. Plus, the very presence of the Borg and the Enterprise in the AQ in this time period would alter the timeline. Finally, they quickly determined that the Sphere fired upon the place where Cochrane was building his warp ship. They had to investigate to make sure that humanity's first warp flight happened as history recorded it, else the UFP would never exist.
– Sava
11 hours ago
2
2
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
Also to add in this excellent answer, everything happened rather quickly so probably there was not enough time to get a lock on the sphere, engage the tractor beam and play tug before the sphere gets in vortex.
– Loki
11 hours ago
add a comment |
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Tethering themselves to the cube would pose a higher risk of being boarded, and assimilated (resistance is futile, we are borg, you will join the collective, your mind will become our mind, we are borg... Sort of thing) Also, having the tractor beam touch the cube poses the risk of their technology adapting, with their hyper analysis granted to them via a collective mind. It would only be a matter of minutes before they would break free or even find a way to reverse the tractor beam and utilize it as a weapon.
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+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
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Tethering themselves to the cube would pose a higher risk of being boarded, and assimilated (resistance is futile, we are borg, you will join the collective, your mind will become our mind, we are borg... Sort of thing) Also, having the tractor beam touch the cube poses the risk of their technology adapting, with their hyper analysis granted to them via a collective mind. It would only be a matter of minutes before they would break free or even find a way to reverse the tractor beam and utilize it as a weapon.
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+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
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Tethering themselves to the cube would pose a higher risk of being boarded, and assimilated (resistance is futile, we are borg, you will join the collective, your mind will become our mind, we are borg... Sort of thing) Also, having the tractor beam touch the cube poses the risk of their technology adapting, with their hyper analysis granted to them via a collective mind. It would only be a matter of minutes before they would break free or even find a way to reverse the tractor beam and utilize it as a weapon.
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Tethering themselves to the cube would pose a higher risk of being boarded, and assimilated (resistance is futile, we are borg, you will join the collective, your mind will become our mind, we are borg... Sort of thing) Also, having the tractor beam touch the cube poses the risk of their technology adapting, with their hyper analysis granted to them via a collective mind. It would only be a matter of minutes before they would break free or even find a way to reverse the tractor beam and utilize it as a weapon.
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+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
4 hours ago
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+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
4 hours ago
+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
+1 didn't remember that the Borg could adapt to tech fast!
– QueenSvetlana
8 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
4 hours ago
It wasn't just technology that they could adapt rapidly. But also genetics and biological adaptations as well. Whenever a new race or species was encountered, if you remember there speeches about your technological and biological characteristics and advancements will be added to their already established homogeneous cybernetic race. Your resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are borg. (Expect us - I often chuckle over the anonymous epithet often heard in the videos. "We are anonymous, we are legion, you should have expected us, resistance is futile" my colleagues bare similarities)
– Syntaxxx Err0r
4 hours ago
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Because a Borg cub/spheree can't be held by a tractor beam?
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
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@Paulie_D - Is it established anywhere in ST canon that it isn't possible? If so, write a complete answer. I haven't been able to find one.
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
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Borg ships are incredibly powerful, more so than the Enterprise.
– Paulie_D
12 hours ago
@Paulie_D - Even if the sphere didn't have any weapons, they couldn't hold it in place? The sphere was powerful enough to break the beam?
– QueenSvetlana
12 hours ago
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@Cadence - From MemoryAlpha: A tractor beam or stabilizing beam was an attenuated linear graviton beam used by starships and space stations to control the movement of external objects. The tractor beam placed spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, allowing it to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory - memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam
– QueenSvetlana
11 hours ago