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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] There's no particular reason to say that single ball-turrets are weaker than double ones - or that short phaser strips are weaker than long ones. It's just convenient to think that the Stargazer had a two-tier phaser system since the dialogue implies this, and the most obvious division would be into twin and single emitters. We have seen the short phaser strips of TNG-era ships fire about just as often as the long ones, and there hasn't been any mention of them being "secondary" weapons. They fire when the target is at an angle optimal for their use (a situation we mostly see in Voyager, since TNG did not have quite as violently maneuvering opponents and DS9 did not feature strip-phaser ships in a central role). In contrast, single-ball turrets almost never fire. The only time these "secondary" weapons have been seen firing IIRC was DS9 "Paradise Lost" where the modified-Excelsior USS Lakota used her ventral phasers (which consist of four single turrets). Then again, the Lakota also fired phaser beams from at least three locations that did not have phaser emitters of any sort! Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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