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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] I keep rewatching clips of "Shattered Mirror" and "Paradise Lost", yet can't decide from where the aft torpedoes were launched. They are always shown from a distance, making their exact locations impossible to determine. "Shattered Mirror": the entire aft surface of the tail glows yellow (imagine Drexler's engines actually working). The glow subsides, and a photon torpedo emerges from somewhere on the *port* side of the tail. Certainly not from the blueprint/MSD locations. You could be convinced into thinking that the torpedo came out of the left impulse "red-light", unless you freeze-framed the video and saw the torpedo coming from elsewhere. "Paradise Lost": reruning the scene about ten times convinces the eye that the photon torpedo was fired *aft* from the ventral side of the *forward* starboard quantum launcher. Freeze-framing the video, however, shows this to be an optical illusion -- however, the torpedo still came out from somewhere on the starboard side, between the nacelles. It can't be all the way aft because the glow preceding the launch grows so big as to cover the forward quantum launcher (hence the illusion). A glow starting at the very aft would have to be impossibly huge to do this. I wonder whether the VFX crews wanted the torpedoes to come out of the left "impulse red-light" and the forward quantum launcher, respectively, and relied on optical illusions to convince the viewers of this. Is the freeze-frame a more valid evidence? Another thing. Those "impulse red-lights" are not always glowing red. Sometimes they're dark. It could be an argument for an alternate impulse system in the tail, and aft launchers in the dark holes. On the other hand, a huge aft torpedo bay could also be in the tail, replacing Drexler's engines. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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