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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] A fighter, defined as a tiny ship launched from a larger one, is only useful when it can do things the larger ship can't. So...what can't your pre-TOS ships do? My suspicion is that, in Star Trek, a fighter or other distributed weapon system would only be useful if you could put a greater or equal amount of power into your distributed weapon as you have in your shipboard ones. Considering the era, perhaps a good use for fighters would be as single (or at least limited) shot nuclear warhead launchers. Not to drag Enterprise into this, but...Enterprise suggests that pre-photon torpedo torpedoes were self-propelled. So you wouldn't need a fancy magnetic/gas launcher, and could just strap them to the bottom of a tiny craft. By spreading out your launchers, you presumably make it harder for the enemy to shoot down all the missles before they hit, as well as reduce the number of people at risk from any single counterattack. Having read through at least some of your Starfleet Museum, I get the impression that beam weapons of the day were fairly sizable, so they wouldn't seem to be likely candidates for fighters. As far as I know. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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