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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] "Balance of Terror" also referred to torpedo tubes 4 and 6, suggesting at least six such weapons aboard. One wonders if the armament of the Enterprise was organized so that a great many "phaser generators" would all fire though a single common emitter. If that emitter was steerable enough (and the ventral saucer spot did offer rather good coverage, assuming a corresponding weapon was placed on the aft dorsal surface of the saucer), and building of emitters was expensive yet building of generators was cheap, then this sort of weaponry would make sense. Personally, I'm all for "creatively interpreting" the visuals and saying that the ship had a more varied armament roughly on the lines of the usual fanfic view: emitters around the top and bottom vertices of the saucer, and possibly some more at the bottom of the secondary hull or atop the shuttlebay as in the refitted ship. We just happened to blink when those weapons fired. Or Kirk ordered starboard phasers to fire, and they did - and the camera was late in catching this, so by the time we got exterior view, Kirk had already ordered "cease fire on starboard banks, switch to forward banks". Which we never heard since we were already out of the ship. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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