If the ship could detect the problem, it could also tell them how to fix it.
The ship detected a piece of debris heading towards it.
These ships detected some of the later Japanese raiders, but others managed to arrive undetected.
At any moment the ships might detect a swarm of incoming vampires.
The ships may have detected Argonaut, and one passed close by the submarine.
So the other ship just never detected the Ariel at all.
He wondered if the ship detected his note of distrust.
So that human ships could detect us, and make the intercept.
The ship can detect the pockets at short range, but not in enough time to move out of the way.
It was so unfortunate that she hadn't been on the subspace post at the time their ship detected the message from the Enterprise.