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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I've been doing some re-reading of Masao's Starfleet Museum articles as part of a project I'm working on. And there's one strange inconsistency that's bugged me... In "Balance of Terror," it seemed that the Romulan Bird-of-Prey's only (or at least primary and only truly effective) weapon was the plasma cannon, which required "enormous" amounts of power. Thus, it makes sense that a weapon requiring such power couldn't be fired while the ship is cloaked. However, later stories seemed to take it as a hard and fast rule that [i]any[/i] cloaked ship is incapable of firing [i]any[/i] weapon until the cloak is deactivated. This, of course, became the major plot point in Star Trek VI, and to a lesser extent [i]Nemesis[/i] as well. I wonder, though... just how much power does it really take to push a photon torpedo out a tube? Can that [i]really[/i] require so much power that it's either power to the cloak, or power to the torpedo tubes? I could understand phasers and disruptors, since those are a more continuous drain of firepower. But projectile weapons like torpedoes (or missiles, for Masao's ships) seem to be a rather strange limitation. Can anyone think of a reasonable excuse for why standard photon torpedoes couldn't be fired [i]at all[/i] while the cloak is engaged? I got nothin'. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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