At the end of tonight's episode, "Civilization", the Enterprise is being chased by an alien vessel and firing a large number of torpedoes out her backside. They came from underneath the saucer, from some fairly clear spots.
The alien ship was pretty cool though, gotta say that.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
To me, this makes me wonder if the aft-firing torpedo in "Fight or Flight" really did come from the aft pod. I can't really remember that sequence, but did we see the torpedo actually emerge from the pod or appear from under the pod? Still, these new weapons ports on the aft underside of the saucer is a good thing, in my opinion. There's some symmetry to the front and back of the saucer. It also seemed to indicate that a fair amount of the lower saucer is dedicated to the defense systems. These new tubes are also in pretty good spots. There's nothing to obstruct the path of fire.
Posted by Jack_Crusher (Member # 696) on :
Didn't the Akiraprise, I mean the Enterprise have some kind of plasma based weapon in Broken Bow?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Hehehheheheheheha, yuoo su foonny! Celleeng it Akurepreese-a! Heheheheheha! Yuoo su foonny! Yuoo shuoold be-a Juhnny Cersun! Heheheheheha!
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
I'd be willing to bet the plasma weapons are only on the front-side of the ship.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I don't know, I thought those things they fired at the alien ship at first _were_ the plasma cannons. But they didn't look quite right.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
Is it just me, or it the "Akiraprise" thing getting a little old now that everyone has seen that the ship doesn't look anywhere near as similar to the Akira as we thought? Nobody runs around calling the Olympic the "Daedalympic" and Bill George a design-theif just because they both have big balls. Erm, yeah.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
I call her the "Pre-E" almost exclusively. Calling her simply "NX-01" is pretty popular here too...
Mark
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Well, now we've seen that it is like the Akira in at least one way: IT HAS TOO MANY GODDAMNDED TORPEDO TUBES FOR ITS OWN FRIGGIN' GOOD!
-MMoM
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Well, given that they seem to be able to launch only one at a time, with a lengthy-but-cool loading sequence required in between shots, having more tubes is probably a good thing. In that respect, the Pre-E has quite the submarine feel.
Assuming the aft pod tube in "Fight or Flight" is still an official tube the count is now up to three tubes aft and four forward. Assuming the plasma guns seen in the pilot are those non-bumps on the forward dorsal, there are at least two emission points for that. We'll probably get an even better idea of her loadout when we get those cannons installed...
Finally, I think the aft pod tube still makes sense - in fact, it could be a multipurpose pod that was specifically used in "Fight or Flight" becausse they were still figuring out how to make the torpedoes blow stuff up, and then in "Unexpected" to fire that charge. One could surmise that deployable probes, mines, and other whatnot could be in there.
Mark
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Submarine = Good
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
For me, this ship is the new Enterprise, Enterprise (no article), or the NX Enterprise. Sometimes I'll use NX-01. The other ships I call the original Enterprise, the refit Enterprise, and the Enterprise-Letter. It works well for me. Your mileage may vary.
As for the weapons ports, there are four holes in a row on the front underside of the saucer. However, I think only two of those are actual torpedo tubes. In "Fight or Flight," Archer and Reed were talking about the starboard tube and the port tube. It sounds like there are only two forward tubes since they didn't make a distinction between the inner two holes or the outer two holes. There was no Starboard Tube 1 or Port Center Tube.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Personally, I refer to it as "Akiraprise" simply because I got used to calling it that before. Not to mention that we have had official word that TPTB intentionally used the Akira as a basis, just because people thought it was "cool". I'm not such a fan of that sort of thinking, so I don't have a problem w/ continuing to mock it. :-)
