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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] [QUOTE] Comments? [/QUOTE] Trimble makes a lot of stuff up. None of this sounds very likely. 1) I seem to recall the Klingons pulling some 'stasis weapon' shit in 'MTMT', or one of the TAS episodes, anyway.. the explanation that it didnt work and was energy-expensive is a good explanation for why it should stay buried. Good riddance... 1a) We dont know specifically what a lot of Klingon weapons are, but I wouldnt trust TAS to dictate that Klingons might not have had photorps.. its one of those semantics issues like 'Romulans having simple impulse'.. its vague and confuses something that otherwise should be quite clear.. Klingons have always had launching weapons.. thats what the big hole is for in the front.. the nature of the warhead is what is at question, and we have no information as to what they fired in ENT or TOS. I believe the only weapons seen firing in TOS were the disruptors on the ends of the warp nacelles, in 'Elaan of Troyius' We know that by TMP they were definitely firing torpedoes, but i doubt they were ever specified to be photon torpedoes.. They fired torpedoes from their rear tube in ENT too.. 2) No information to be found here.. I sincerely doubt the TAS Klothos was called a D-5, but thats just my opinion.. I do assume however that Klingons didnt have cloaks until after 'Enterprise Incident' where the Romulans had D7s. Kor seemed to be the Klingon fleet's equivalent of Kirk, so its likely he could command two ships of the same name 'Klothos', and possibly the second one was of a different design. 3) The D7 has less internal volume than the Constitution-class, so i doubt it had more crew (remember, Constitutions were the most packed of Federation ships at 430.. Voyager has a similar internal volume but 1/3 that crew).. however, more non-canon sources have stated that Klingon ships sometimes carried troops in cryo-stasis. A few bays of a hundred or so frozen troops would justify that estimate, but it seems really far-fetched 4)The United States has an Armed Forces consisting of a Navy, an Army Corps, a Marine Corps, an Air Force and a Coast Guard. It seems like the Klingon Empire could have a Klingon Defense Force with an Imperial Fleet, maybe a Colonial Infantry, and whatever contradictory term they want to throw at us tomorrow.. its not really a conflict at all. (the example of frozen soldiers i remember from a patch i saw at a convention.. instead of the motto 'to protect and serve' it said 'Klingon Imperial Cryo-Marines -- To Reheat and Serve'.. i laughed until i stopped!) 5) Not sure on that one.. they had to make friends and physically dock the two ships together to escape as i recall.. 6) Deflectors as cloaks.. hmmm.. kind of like using a toaster as a telephone? Maybe spock means some kind of signal deflecting countermeasures, but seeing as the ship wasnt invisible, i think this could mean that TOS era Klingons definitely didnt have cloaks readily available to all ships, since they were half-assing it using a deflector to cover their emissions [/QB][/QUOTE]
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