A implicação é que as mudanças técnicas eram esotéricas demais para serem usadas continuamente. Eles parecem ser amplamente dependentes da entrada do Barclay e não replicáveis:
[Riker catching up to Barclay, heading the same direction, smiling with obvious admiration.]
RIKER: (continuing) ... Everyone's still trying to figure out exactly how you did it.
BARCLAY: It... it just occurred to me that I could set up a frequency harmonic between the deflector and the shield grid... using the warp field generator as a power flow anti-attenuator and that of course naturally created an amplification of the inherent energy output. (TECH?)
[Riker lost him a long time ago.]
Existe a possibilidade distinta de que algumas das