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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] It could be that the pod exists mainly to house that blue glowing dome thingamabob, and any additional equipment is just, well, additional. The blue thing could be very, very important to the ship - after all, the Constitution-refits, Sydneys and some Excelsiors had one, and Constellations, Mirandas and some Excelsiors actually had two. It could also be completely superfluous, since the TOS ship and the TNG vessels had none. But whatever it is, it's reasonably large and reasonably radiant. Perhaps it's a good idea to keep it away from the inhabited parts of the hull... Putting the aft torp launcher there seems like a jolly bad idea to me, though. Especially if the pod already houses big and dangerous equipment, and torp preparation and launching requires manual labor. A properly designed ship (from the TV show standpoint, even if not necessarily from the engineering one) ought to have weapon emplacements that look like weapon emplacements and are all installed using a common logic, like a seagoing warship's gun turrets or torpedo tube clusters or VLS cassettes. You don't mount one gun in a turret on the forecastle and then have another one swing from cables between the masts. If the main hull is good enough for forward torps, it ought to be good enough for the aft ones as well. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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