Talk:Force field

organizing my thoughts shield vs forcefield
After spending a fair amount of time over the past few days going through our various shield articles, I'm considering couple of things here: 1) We merge this article with the shield article, and consolidate all this information on the shield page. 2) We continue to have separate shield and forcefield articles, and we clearly define what a shield and forcefield are.

The way I'm seeing this is that both forcefields and shields utilize the same underlying technology. The only difference is their function/use; While a shield protects a ship or area from attack by weapons, a forcefield acts in place of a wall to contain something (like people or water). But they're both basically the same thing. If we were to keep these as two articles, we could probably break it down something like this:

Forcefield article:
 * Field used to hold back water on the mobile drilling platform
 * Field used to contain the FRAN nanite block
 * Field used in Atlantis/Aurora Brig
 * I recall an episode (I think in season 5) were Rodney raised a forcefield around an individual room
 * In The Road Not Taken, same raised a force field around a room in the SGC
 * To'kra forcefield in Evolution, Part 1
 * Tollan force field
 * Apophis' mothership forcefields in upgrades
 * Forcefield used by the wraith to trap the asurans in Reunion

Shield article:
 * Everything already on the shield article
 * Stargate shield (Ancient and Goa'uld)
 * Personal shield emitter
 * Vanir exoskeleton shield

Unsure:
 * Goa'uld shield/field in Into The Fire - It surrounded the entire base like a shield, but it's main purpose was just to keep people out of the facility.

Thoughts? -Anubis 10545 (talk) (Contribs) 08:35, June 2, 2017 (UTC)