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Predict the unpredictable, but how do you unpredict the unpredictable?
[This message has been edited by Matrix (edited March 03, 2001).]
The Enterprise held about a hundred torpedoes, according to ST VI.
Mark
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"Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?"
- Carl Sagan, "Contact"
--Jonah
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"It's obvious I'm dealing with a moron..."
--Col. Edwards, ROBOTECH
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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"Lately I've noticed that everyone seems to trust me. It's really quite unnerving. I'm still trying to get used to it."
- Garak, "Empok Nor"
"A woodchuck could chuck all the wood a woodchuck could, if a woodchuck could chuck wood."
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We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
"Wowsers!"
-Star Trek: Series ?: "A Pair o' Docs, part II"
--Jonah
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"It's obvious I'm dealing with a moron..."
--Col. Edwards, ROBOTECH
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Just a thought...A grain of salt-season to taste-lather, rinse, repeat
* Mental note to self: must resist urge to reply to M.I. quotes next time *
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"Cry havoc and let's slip the dogs of Evil"
Now, would you rather store the torpedoes deep in the bowels of the ship so that it A: would need an ingenious tram-system to transport the goodies to the launchers (which would take even longer than the +-5 minutes it usually took as it was), and B: blow up the whole ship if they DID go off in such a tight entrenchment?
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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited March 04, 2001).]
I get the impression that antimatter containment is one of the most serious concerns aboard a ship. No matter WHERE the reactants are stored, if the containment fields drop, there's gonna be a whole lotta hurtin' goin' on. And besides, I don't think the torps are even armed (loaded, yes, but not armed) until they're in the firing tube(s).
And lastly, it has been pointed out that the E seen in TWoK and TSfS had been serving as a training vessel, and that the manual torpedo operations were probably an Enterprise-specific retrofit to teach teamwork and the like, even though the actual skills wouldn't be needed on a regular Starfleet ship -- like the Eagle and the Constitution for the United States presently. This supposition is backed up by what we saw of the torpedo facilities in TUC.
--Jonah
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"It's obvious I'm dealing with a moron..."
--Col. Edwards, ROBOTECH
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"Babies are squirmy, ugly, dirty, smelly, and noisy. They'd offend all five of my senses if I had any reason to lick one..."
-- TSN, 2001.01.11 23:27, PhoenixChat
TUC?
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Here lies a toppled god,
His turnip not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
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"It's obvious I'm dealing with a moron..."
--Col. Edwards, ROBOTECH
If Khan decided to fire torpedoes instead of phasers then what? Instead of just a breach along that side, what you'll get a either a large hole in the neck where BOTH tubes are useless OR the entire neck is severed where now the saucr is a sitting duck in terms of speed and fire power.
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Predict the unpredictable, but how do you unpredict the unpredictable?