Cloaking device

A cloaking device was a piece of technology that could render an object invisible to the naked eye and to some sensors. This made a functioning cloaking device of significant tactical advantage as it could render ships and other objects undetectable.
The term "perfect cloak" was often used for a cloaking device that completely hid an object from all known forms of detection.
Many cloaking devices prevented the use of weapons or shields while a vessel was cloaked. Both the Klingons and Remans have designed cloaks that do not hamper the use of these systems, though both vessels they devices were first used on were destroyed.
The Romulan Star Empire and Klingon Empire made wide use of cloaking devices on their starships. The Federation was forbidden from using or developing the technology due to a treaty signed with the Romulan Star Empire. An amendment was made to this treaty to allow the to be equipped with a Romulan cloaking device.
The tachyon detection grid was a mention designed to detect cloaked vessels and proved to be effective against both Romulan and Klingon cloaking devices.
The Dominion also possessed mentions of defeating cloaking technology, such as using a long range tachyon scanner and antiproton beam.
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