DS9 : " Profit and Loss ". Following the outbreak of hostilities with the Dominion in late , the Romulan Empire allowed the use of one of their own cloaks aboard the USS Defiant. Although this was originally limited to usage within the Gamma Quadrant , Captain Benjamin Sisko chose to ignore this limitation whenever it was convenient.
In order to ensure that the cloak was used correctly, Sub-Commander T'Rul was assigned to the Defiant initially, during the ship's first mission with the cloak. In exchange, Starfleet had to provide all the intelligence it received on the Dominion.
Prior to the Cardassians joining the Dominion in , and flushing the Klingons and Maquis out of their territory, the Klingon High Council decided to aid the Maquis in their fight against Cardassia. They provided the Maquis with thirty class-4 cloaking devices with the Klingons' understanding that they were to be used on Maquis ships.
DS9 : " Blaze of Glory ". In , Miles O'Brien , Jadzia Dax , and Rom employed cloaking technology to hide the self-replicating minefield blocking the Bajoran wormhole. Also, the Federation equipped one of their holoships with a cloak in Although quite heavy, according to Rom, Klingon cloaking devices weigh less than Romulan cloaking devices.
It was even possible for an entire planetary body to be rendered invisible. The planet Aldea was equipped with a powerful cloaking device that allowed itself to fully cloak. By the late 32nd century , vessels such as the Emerald Chain 's Viridian and Booker's ship were equipped with cloaking technology.
The ability to cloak was also part of the refit to the Discovery in In the alternate reality caused by the temporal incursion of the Narada , the Federation was already bound to treaties banning cloaked weapons as early as Star Trek Into Darkness display graphic.
In order to function, most cloaking devices needed to be tied into a ship's deflector shield grid. TOS : " The Enterprise Incident " When activated, the cloaking device projects a cloaking field, also known as cloaking shields, around the vessel which selectively bend the path of light and sensors to render the vessel invisible and undetectable.
Most vessels could not use their weapons and deflector shields when cloaked. Ships of the Klingon Dclass , for example, were vulnerable to attack for two seconds when their shields automatically dropped as the cloaking field formed.
TNG : " Face of the Enemy "; Star Trek Generations Ships like the Scimitar with more advanced cloaking technology however did not have this problem, as it had primary and secondary shields and weapon systems that could remain online while the ship was cloaked.
Star Trek Nemesis. Ever since the initial introduction of the cloaking device, there was an ongoing race between the development of new cloaking technologies and the development of new detection systems that could defeat them. Starfleet's earliest method of penetrating cloaks was developed in , when Daniels provided Enterprise with 31st century quantum beacons so they could locate a Suliban stealth-cruiser.
These devices also proved effective against the Romulan cloaking devices used on mines but were ineffective against the Bird-of-Prey cloaking devices. ENT : " Shockwave ", " Minefield ". The cloak used by the Sarcophagus in used a massive gravitational field to bend light and electromagnetic radiation around the ship, rendering it invisible to sensors. However, imperfections in the field led to near-imperceptible shifts in the background electromagnetic field.
Using portable sensor devices surreptitiously planted on the Sarcophagus , Discovery made micro-jumps with the aid of its spore drive , taking readings from multiple vectors in a matter of minutes. Using these readings, Discovery analyzed the correlation between the cloak's field and the background electromagnetic field, allowing the formulation of an algorithm that exposed the enemy ship's position.
This ultimately led to the Sarcophagus ' destruction. The cloak used by the Romulan Bird-of-Prey that crossed the Neutral Zone in was less than perfect, allowing a starship to pick up a blip on its motion tracking sensors.
This blip was not accurate enough for targeting of weapons and only appeared when the vessel moved, but it was enough to help the Enterprise locate the enemy vessel. By , advances in Romulan technology had removed the problem, forcing Starfleet to steal a model of the new cloak.
Versions of the cloak used by the Klingons in the late 23rd century also had their flaws. Cloaked D7-class battle cruisers could be detected using a metaphasic sweep.
VOY : " Prophecy " Energy "distortions", manifesting themselves most often as refracting visible light energy from surrounding stellar objects very near the cloaked ship's outline, appearing as a "shimmering" effect, while cloaked and prior to decloaking, could give away a cloaked ship when observed. In the 24th century , the Federation protected its borders from cloaked Romulan incursion by a gravitic sensor net. In , Geordi La Forge developed a technique called the tachyon detection grid that used tachyon beams transmitted between different points to expose cloaked objects.
Soon, this had been implemented on the Federation's border outposts as well as in Klingon space. In it was not commonly understood by Starfleet personnel that cloaked ships radiate a slight subspace variance at warp speeds.
These variances typically vanished once the vessel drops out of warp. Not being an expansionist empire, and not being an aggressive empire, the Federation depends on defense in depth and powerful shields and weapons instead of small unit guerilla tactics. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I am only on Season 3 of TNG I have not gotten there yet. How I envy you. Sam Uh-oh Why is that? KeeganMcCarthy You get to experience it for the first time.
We're all grizzled TNG veterans, who can't remember the magic of that first viewing. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message. The Federation is forbidden from pursuing cloaking technology in the Treaty of Algeron, which is the treaty that governs relations between the Romulans and The Federation.
However, The Romulans agreed to give one cloaking device for the Defiant in exchange for all of the intelligence Starfleet had gathered concerning the Dominion. James Becktel. I bet the USS Valiant could 've cloaked. Rahul Rao. Your claim is just idle speculation. There was no indication or evidence of the Valiant's capability to cloak. It has been established by the Treaty of Algeron that no Federation vessel have a cloaking device, with the exception of the Defiant - which as you remember used to have a Romulan officer on board to moniter the use of the cloak.
The Voth Cloak Technologies set grants the following starships:. Quantum Singularity Manipulation is a form of cloaking available as an active reputation trait from the Romulan Reputation. It cloaks the player's ship, regardless of the ship or player faction, and allows the ship to continue firing without breaking the cloak. The efficiency of cloak's stealth is linked to the player's Starship Stealth and their ship's auxiliary power level.
However, there are a number of other factors that can aid cloaking tactics;. Your Starship Perception skill and certain abilities can help you penetrate an enemy's cloak. The value of these abilities are primarily in PvP. Of note, abilities include;. Mines can sometimes be cloaked until activated. As a player ability is also termed a Stealth Module. Star Trek Online Wiki. Spoiler warnings ahead! Star Trek Online Wiki Explore.
Main Page All Pages. STO wiki. Quick links. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 2. A Romulan Scimitar firing whilst cloaked The Romulans have been one of the longest continual users of cloaking technology and believe most other powers stole the technology from them.
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