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Why in the hell Akira was desighned so early?!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] I just never really could understand the fetish fanboys have with fighters. British dreadnaughts did not open up their bows and launch dozens of Zodiacs packing 8-inch mortars during the Battle of Jutland. They aren't a neccessity to combat and needn't logically exist. Peregrines are autonomous spacecraft, probably originally light couriers, that when upgraded with assorted modular bits and pieces can be useful for close-quarters fleet engagements. This has been Sternbach's line and I think it makes sense. If they're 35 m long there might even be room below the cockpit for a fairly cramped sailboat style bunkroom and a common space and such. They have a use outside of combat and as shown on DS9 acted as essentially the smallest starships in the fleet, not as some kind of auxilliary secret weapon that popped out of holes here and there and everywhere. If an Akira carries fighters, they'd have to be be tiny, shuttle-sized POSes. Trek tech, with Defiant being the acknowledged onscreen exception ("Tough little ship") has pretty much always emphasized bigger=more powerful. (I guess you can craft theories of powerplant size and weapons cabability if need them to get your head around it.) Anything shuttle-sized is going to get its ass handed to it by any kind of starship that isn't flown by a bunch of sponge-haired guys from the Delta Quadrant. Much as there may be a cool factor in having little attack shuttles zooming about blowing the hell out of big ships, there's no Trek precendent for it. There's a reason why modern sea-navies don't utilize sea-going fighters in its engagements and those hold true in the Trek context as well. Dedicated carriers and dedicated fighters would be all-but-useless during peacetime. This makes them warships. Starfleet didn't make those until the [i]Defiant[/i] came along. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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