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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] ...But if they [i]knew[/i] for sure that there are mines, they would go to battle at full speed? :p I don't think we have ever seen good evidence of space mines that [i]weren't[/i] cloaked. It's not as if those in DS9 "Sons of Mogh" were detectable by sensors or anything, I mean. But mines just aren't the thing to be used in "hot" combat. If it's a straightforward pursuit thing, then there's no advantage in the forward ship dropping [i]camouflaged[/i] ordnance when [i]visible[/i] things would have a far greater pursuit-discouraging effect. If it's complex maneuvering, then a camouflaged explosive is useless, and a camouflaged device that launches a homing weapon (a "Captor mine", which I think all Star Trek mines are anyway) is unnecessary overkill when a visible homing weapon would be just as good or even better. Mines are area denial and ambush weapons, to be used when the deploying party is NOT present at the battlefield. If both sides decide to attend the battle, then weapons that have some but not all of the qualities of mines are preferable. As for depth charges, the dramatic problem with "Balance of Terror" was that Kirk couldn't have any dedicated anti-invisibility weapons aboard because he wasn't supposed to know about the existence of invisibility technology. The regular weapons [i]had[/i] to serve. Agreed that torpedoes would have better matched the visuals we got - but the ideal solution IMHO would have been for Kirk to fire phasers without any silly "proximity blast setting". He should simply have ordered the beam swept in a "search pattern", so that it would occasionally lick the Romulan ship and cause all that plaster to fall. Too bad the neo-TOS couldn't alter both the visuals and the dialogue. :) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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