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Four Typoes (maybe it was a joke i can't tell.)
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
Ah, look. Can'not Takeda'blameo is still here!

Mark
 

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Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
 
Wow, an asymetrical weapon placement on a Starfleet ship... I don't know how to react. *baffled, faints*
 

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
 
Well, it is a first...
 

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Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
 
Probably the ship has four (or more) berths for phase cannon, but just three of the weapons were available for installation. Reed decided to put two forward and one aft, but no doubt the next overhaul at Earth will see the ship receive at least a fourth gun.

When the fwd guns were used, were the visuals of their deployment identical? Is the aft gun different somehow?

Timo Saloniemi
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
As far as I could tell (and remember), the cannons were visually the same, just placed at different points on the hull.

Fortunately, the SFX guys thought to create a new shot of the deploying cannon rather than borrowing from the ones in "Silent Enemy".
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
I recall Reed saying that they were *supposed* to have three, but had only one - they assembled it plus built the other two from scratch. I'm pretty sure there's another hatch on the aft port quarter (at least on the model), but they just needed to mount one - perhaps for energy limitations? Also, from the place they mounted it, it could apparently cover the port side firing arc, so either side doesn't really matter.

And it just occurred to me that the rather obvious blind spots in the firing arcs must be accounted for somehow. You know what would be cool? If the phase cannons' internal mechanism allows them to flip over and then deploy from the dorsal side! Either way, I'd still prefer if they kept the old plasma weaponry as some sort of secondary defence, despite the only time we see them firing they didn't hit much...

Mark
 

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
 
In terms of firing arcs, there isn't much on the dorsal, though, is there? The plasma emplacements are up there and I guess they must still rely on them if someone pounces on them from above.
 

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Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
 
So what do we know about the Enterprise's plasma cannons? Are those the weapons that we saw in "Broken Bow"? How many, and where are they?
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
Yes, that's them, fired only in that episode. We know they have at least two mounts, and from the angle we saw them fired they seem to match the two structures on the dorsal side of the model. That's about it, really. Should someone bug Doug?

Mark
 

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
 
Please.

But a nice, warm, over-coffee bug. Not a cold, fanboyish Jaeger bug.
 

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Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
 
I'm rather skeptical about there being only three phase cannons due to energy limitations. After all, IIRC, the two seen fired in "Silent Enemy" was only feeding off the impulse drives. They can probably tap the warp core for more juice, no problem.

The NX-01 didn't have the most brilliant defensive designs. I'd love to take a shuttlepod against it.
 

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