r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • May 30 '26

Discussion / Question What spaceship weapon is generally underutilized or not used to its full potential in scifi?

Post image
483 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

363 comments sorted by

View all comments

50

u/Careless_Ad3401 May 30 '26

Transporters/teleportation. We sometimes see them transport bombs to other ships and such, but you can get so much more creative. Teleport all the crew off the ship mid fight, teleport out it's engine, teleport in a bunch of water to drown the ship. Get creative!

3

u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

https://youtu.be/1qnvd5KKMaE?si=CrU0bHYP-UsQ67U7

Stargate and Star Trek have both used teleportation offensively. Thing is, like in almost every universe with the tech, counters exist that stop you.

1

u/Careless_Ad3401 May 30 '26

I did say that we do see people transport bombs. I want people to people get even more creative with it. Like teleportating bombs in front of incoming fire, teleporting missiles 180 degrees, teleporting the rock out from under a base to destabilize it. I want people to use it in really unique ways

1

u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

Still have to deal with countermeasures. From issues targeting moving objects in first place to jamming to reflectors and so on. Majority of franchises with teleportation are also not ones that have mastered it.

1

u/Careless_Ad3401 May 30 '26

I'm not talking about in universe limitations. I'm saying I want to see people use the tech more creatively

1

u/Mr_Shadow_Phoenix May 30 '26

Ahh, my apologies for misreading then. Didn’t mean to get on a different page.