PARIS: The ship might make it without inertial dampers, but we'd all just be stains on the back wall.
KIM: Could we go to low warp under these conditions? It would appear that for very short periods, normal metal plating or basic magnetic shielding is sufficient to deal with normal in-system dust or even thin atmospheric conditions as long as you don't mind risking hitting something bigger and dying horribly (see: Why did the Enterprise drop out of warp before reaching Bersallis III?) La Forge mentions that the ship's 'structural integrity' is holding, but there's no indication that the ship has a structural integrity field.įor the record, Tom Paris seems pretty confident that Voyager (in VOY: Tattoo) could make a low warp 'jump' inside a planetary atmosphere.
Based on this Paramount-licensed poster from artist Matt Cushman, the ship doesn't have any shields or deflectors.