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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Well, the [i]Scimitar[/i] was already a ridiculous �bership anyway. Anyone else remember one member's sig line from a few years ago? It said something to the effect of "Shinzon was the ultimate fanboy: he grew up in a cave, has zero sex life, and built a starship with fifty torpedo launchers." Amasov, I like your idea of weapons fire disrupting the cloak. That might be a reasonable explanation... although there may have been a brief tactical advantage (assuming all the R&D didn't go up in flames with Chang's ship), as Federation (and everyone else's) sensors got faster with the response time, the enemy could more quickly pinpoint the source of the fire and nail them. That could also explain why shields would be unavailable while cloaked... they'd also interfere with the cloaking field... or maybe vice versa. Remember that silly scene from [i]Generations[/i], when the Klingon Kleavage Klan went ka-boom? (Again, there's also the exception of the �bership [i]Scimitar[/i].) Therefore, with the combination of those two factors, it generally made sense for any commander to want to decloak and raise shields before opening fire. So I guess the rule Scotty quoted would be, in full, "A Bird-of-Prey can't fire while cloaked [i]and remain effectively cloaked after firing[/i]." (Since the [i]Enterprise[/i] obviously didn't detect Chang's ship after it fired.) I thought of an interesting ambush tactic to get around those limitations, though... if you've got a bunch of ships, say five or more, each one could remain cloaked, fire a single salvo, and break off in evasive maneuvers before firing again. The number of ships would compensate for each one's low rate of fire due to the frequent maneuvers required. Of course, it would only be useful in limited situations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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