n7axw wrote:Dauntless wrote:while i agree that they said they had been tracked via their emissions, i don't remember it being said it was ELECTRICAL emissions.
and the banning of elec was to prevent the ability to start to develop tech that would LEAD to federation tech.
Good point. What The Gbaba would have detected would have been the spoor of Federation tech which would have been FTL. Emissions originating from electrical transmission would have only traveled the speed of light and probably would have dissapated long before they reached the Gbaba.
Don
All the Gbaba have to do is cruise through your solar system with their electrical detectors turned on. They were searching, not just passively listening for something light years away.