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Could Constitutions have more torpedo launchers?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] A counterpoint: if a Constitution could be given aft torpedoes, why bother building Mirandas at all? Everything in this world is a compromise between conflicting demands. Not everything in the fantasy world of Trek needs be, but Constitutions could still feature some compromises. It is traditional for Starfleet ships (especially Enterprises) to have extremely weak aft armament, and there may even be some hidden technobabble reasons for this (say, nobody can sneak to your 6 o'clock because "the warp contrails will fry him" or "the impulse exhaust will prevent targeting" or "the ship can always accelerate away from the shots"). Or then the rationale simply is "we didn't have room for aft armament - you can have it, but then your starship won't have a shuttlebay". If the Constitution is to have aft torpedoes, then I suggest they be hidden in those four shallow grooves on the dorsal surface of the secondary hull. Those are traditionally considered thruster ports of some sort, but they could theoretically be torp launchers as well. This would probably require relocating Main Engineering a deck below its current location, though (but that isn't impossible, either). I don't like the idea of aft torpedoes, though. Kirk should have fired those when Khan was chasing him into the nebula, provided he had any. The existence of four torp decks IMHO only means that each tube comes with two "bays", an upper and a lower one. Khan destroyed the port lower bay (bay 2 where Kirk boarded), rendering the "loading" bay 1 above it unusable as well. This is why Spock's funeral was held in the starboard "launching" bay 4, while part of the audience stood on the balcony on "loading" bay 3. Then again, the TOS ship apparently had at least six tubes, according to some dialogue. These were probably all in the saucer, where the effects emerged from. When the TMP refit added the two neck launchers, some of the saucer ones could theoretically have been retained, possibly behind those saucer doors which we (and Andy Probert [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] ) mistook for docking port covers or landing legs. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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