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Considering that a Constitution Class will appear on Enterprise soon, I just want to be clear on what sort of weapons does the ship have. I can only recall two forward firing phasers and two photon torpedo launchers ever being used on the show. I also know of some schematics that show two pairs of phasers on either side of the ventral saucer as well as ventral torpedo launchers below the bridge dome, but these weapons were never used on the show. Has there been any speculation on weapons somewhere else on the ship? Considering Enterprise NX-01 seems to fire phasers from arbitrary points on its hull, their going to need to do better than 2 forward phasers for a connie-class.
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It's an earlier thread on the weapons that the original Enterprise had.
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information about the weapons compliment of the constitution class was kept vague so that they could invent new weapons and placements when ever the opertunity arose but never did so heres what i know from the star trek fact files sulu could aim and fire the weapons from the helmsmans position the enterprise had 2 phaser banks fitted to the underside of her saucer section just above the sensor dome she also had a torpedo tube but its location is not mentioned and can not be seen on an of the stills i have from the show but she did fire torpedos from the underside of the saucer she only had the one because she only fired one torpedo at a time hope that helps
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But we know from dialogue that the Enterprise, at least, had multiple tubes. And I don't see how we can tell how many phaser banks it had, but, again, per dialogue, there were more I think than two.
One wonders how this will be handled should the Defiant have to shoot at anyone (as I imagine it will). I wouldn't mind retractable weapons ports, myself. Something that looked a bit like a cross between the NX-01's phase cannons and the refit 1701's banks would be, as I hear the kids outside always saying, sweet, at least in my opinion. Since the phasers get less and less "gunlike" as time goes on, having something a bit like the refit turrets only with barrels would seem to suggest an intermediate stage.
Incidently, this is the sort of question Timo should be all over. Has anyone heard from him lately?
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A nice compromise between the NX-01 and the Connie would be to have the hemisphere phaser emitters of the TOS Connie retract into the hull when not in use.
I also think the Defiant could have some rear-facing weaponry to distinguish it from the Enterprise (which seems to have nothing covering the aft quarter).
After all, we did not see too much of the Defiant onscreen in TOS.
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I disagree Jason about needing to be different from Enterprise. Retracting phasers would make the Defiant look too old, not contemporary with all Connie's.
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So what's the score? I havn't gotten around to seeing IaMD yet, so I still don't know how beefed up the defiant is.
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$$$ Spoilers for "In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2" below.
Well, the Defiant used two forward facing phasers and two aft facing phasers. She also used a forward photon torpedo launcher and an aft photon torpedo launcher.
The forward phasers were on the ventral surface of the primary hull above the the ring around the lower sensor dome (which is where they appeared to be fired from on the original Enterprise). There were two tiny protrusions there. The aft phasers came from two identical tiny protrusions mounted above the hangar deck on either side of the dome/beacon. The forward torpedoes seemed to be fired from the ring around the lower sensor dome on the ventral surface of the primary hull. The aft torpedoes appeared to be fired from the beacon/dome above the hangar deck. Both the phaser blasts and the torpedoes were blue, if you're interested.
There are pictures in the "In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2" tech thread in this forum.
$$$ Spoiler for "In a Mirror Darkly, Part 2" above.
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Very interested, thanks Siegfried. I'll have a shufty and see if I can find the photos.
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A "shufty?" Oh, come off it! And then, what? You'll 'ead up the apple and pears to put on your whistle and toot, guv'nor? As Senior British Officer here at Stalag Flare III, I am shocked and appalled. 8)
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I've said "shuftie" before, although I spelt it like that. And you are only officer of the ginger brigade. Which I guess includes TGB. Have fun.
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I always thought it was whistle and flute. Anyway, I'd rather be off to the old rub-a-dub than up the apples and pears, but that's me.
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