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[QUOTE]Originally posted by EdipisReks: [QB] for those of you who have never seen star trek TNG, or seen the galaxy class starship, the galaxy class has ONE tube in the front, and ONE tube in the back. also, it doesn't make sense for longer arrays to be more powerful than shorter ones. if the phaser arrays are more powerful when they have many banks in it, then the best way to design a phaser would be to make a continous array all around the ship. i would bet the longer arrays simply give a better field of fire. otherwise, why bother putting them [the short ones] on the ship, if they weren't tactically valuable?. my musket to machine gun idea was an exageration, but why bother putting single tubes on instead of burts fire when you have burtst fire technology. also, the galaxy class tubes have been seen firing bursts of 5 torpedoes in very short succession, as well as firing the bursts of ten torpedoes. i think that the soveriegns tube has more than one mode just like the galaxies, one of which is firing a few every couple seconds. i don't think that hitting a ship with one torpedoe would do that much damage. if you watch star trek IV, you will see the excelsior take 1 hit with no real effect, besides being tossed around for dramaturgical effect. the E-A also takes many hits, and it is several impacts before the shields are degraded. i imagine that shield technology will grow faster than torpedo tech (as tank armor has developed faster than tank rounds), so i imagine that late 24th century ships can probably shrug off a single hit. i stand by my assessment of the akira class. --jacob [/QB][/QUOTE]
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