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enlighten me-are these torpedo launchers?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Little things to throw into the fire... Note that the Galaxy's burst-fire tubes (and the Sovereign's, according to the MSD -- you know, the four launchers in the secondary hull) are much longer than the shorter single-fire tubes of the Akira and Sovereign classes. I do consider the cycling rate of the Sovereign's chin turret to be one of the "advanced" things about the design, as it fired off three quantorps a second as opposed to the Galaxy's single-fire rate of about one a second ("Encounter at Farpoint"). The Galaxy's burst-fire capability can probably be seen to best effect in "The Arsenal of Freedom". Granted, they were trying to blanket a small area, but you can see something of the maneuverability of TNG-era torps there. One of the annoying fallacies of recent Trek tech is the notion that torps to compensate for phasers' inability to fire at warp. Cow poo. In TOS, it was quite the opposite. We frequently saw the Enterprise firing phasers at warp, and only rarely firing torps at warp. In TMP, Kirk's first reaction to news of the asteroid in their path was to order phasers. Noodle that, y'all... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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