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So according to the official blurb on "Silent Enemy", the ship will be getting "phase cannons" after all. I'm sorta delighted it wasn't lasers, what with the well-known vacuum visibility problem. Still, not a very imaginative name for the weapons...
Despite the wording of the blurb, I guess the guns were already partially installed, and Reed is just making the final connections or something. Which makes one wonder: why didn't he do those a lot earlier? He seems enthusiastic about that sort of stuff, and isn't too heavily tasked with other kinds of work.
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Well, we've alreadt seen that the Enterprise has some sort of pulse weapon...so my guess is it'll either look really different or it'll be a beam weapon.
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It could be worse, we could be talking about T'Pol being another Seven of Nine clone.
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The thing is, for all of Seven's Borg enhancements, she lacks the chest agumentation to compete with T'Pol. Seven didn't do any irrelevant fan-service scenes, either.
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Someone obviously didn't watch season seven's "Q2" then.
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike: when are they going to invent quantum torpedoes on Enterprise?
Perhaps you are confusing Phase Cannons with Phaser pulse cannons. They won't invent quantum torps and turn the the Enterprise into a pre-TOS the Defiant.
In any case, I see no reason for the Enterprise to be labeled "overpowered," especially for the era. Touchy political relationships considered, it is my believe that the Klingon K'tinga encountered earlier in the season could have easily disabled the Enterprise and just delt with that stupid alien-ship-with-holodecks-and-other-cool-shit as they saw fit.
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These "phase cannon" seem to live up to their name. Nothing un-phaserlike about them so far: they are emitted from nondescript saucer surface locations, they are beamlike but wobbly (closest analogy: Cardassian phasers), and they create unrealistic "mushroom cloud" explosions in vacuum... That's all very TOS, even if the FX is modern.
Love that Andorian thing which I hope will become a trademark for them: fighting with a pistol in one hand, a shoulder-strap-supported rifle in another. If you have limbs to spare, put them into use! Perhaps these guys also kick a lot?
Those new aliens are still humanoid, but with long limbs and bubble helmets and "exposed brain" skulls, they sure look like 1950s Martians. Me likes. Is the face view of the same species? Or is it a Pak'mara after his razor blade slipped on a particularly bad morning after?
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