Well now Abrams is doing both franchises maybe we will find out. I just hope Disney doesn't buy up Star Trek as well because then who knows what junk they will turn out!
Agreed. As advised in yet another sci-fi franchise -- don't cross the streams.
The deflector dish is not part of the deflector shields. What it actually does is send out beams that push objects like small asteroids out of the ship's path while it's traveling at warp.
The deflector dish is the device that emits the deflector shields, which are the beams that push (i.e. deflect) small particles and radiation away from the ship, regardless of sp...
...waitasec. Am I being trolled?