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[QUOTE]Originally posted by EdipisReks: [QB] James, hitting a ship with a single torpedo from a side tube won't eliminate a target at all. 15 single fire tubes makes even less sense than 15 burst fire tubes. thats like putting 15 smoothbore muskets on a humvee instead of a machinegun. also, your idea about the galaxy is flawed, as the galaxy has by far the best total phaser coverage of any ship in trek ever seen, and has 2 burst fire tubes that can cover the entire ship. the galaxy is the best ship seen for fighting multiple targets. the bursts of torpedos that the galaxy class fires can actually hit multiple targets, as seen in "yesterday's entreprise" where a single burst hits at least 2 klingon ships. i don't think that making a torpedo maneuver in the 24th century is anymore taxing than making one maneuver in the 21st century. besides, the akira was, if NCC numbers are any real way of determining age, built in a time when the federation had no need for warships. having that many nonsensical tubes makes even less sense given the time frame. i chalk the akira class to someone who has no real idea how to design a ship that is appropriate for the star trek universe. just because the designer says something, especially a designer who did not work in the core production of trek like andy probert or john eaves, doesn't mean its "Real" in the star trek universe. we have never seen a good schematic for the akira, unlike with the galaxy class, so we don't have an "official" idea of what the akira class specs are. a quote by one person isn't official. if it was, then we would have had wolf 359 figured out a long time ago. many people accept jaeger's statement with blind faith becuase they want a warlike star trek, and they don't want to think of things that make sense "in" the star trek universe. besides, if rick sternbach said that voyager had a large purple hand that extended to flick off enemies, and we never saw it on the screen, would anyone believe it? well, it is voyager, so things that don't make sense are common, but i doubt it would be given any credence, regardless. i find 15 torpedo tubes on one ship, whether burst fire or single fire, to be just as ridiculous as the purple hand. --jacob [/QB][/QUOTE]
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