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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Good points, all, but there's some leeway there in interpreting the on-screen evidence. For all we know, an Intrepid tube could launch 50 torpedoes in a single shot against Galaxy's ten, and Janeway simply never ordered that firing mode since she wanted to spare the torps. And other silliness like that. If we want to inject even a smidgen of realism to this, though, it would be best to say that a smaller ship has less firepower, unless it makes sacrifices of some sort (or unless the two ships are of different categories, like a patrol boat vs. a supertanker). We have seen no sacrifices whatsoever aboard the Voyager, and no indication of a mission *fundamentally* different from that of the Galaxy class. Small ships that outgun their bigger sisters in the real world either rely on a weapons technology that's fundamentally different from that of the big sisters (say, torpedoes against guns) or then sacrifice protection and range (usually meaning giving up ALL protection and ALL range, so that a guy with an assault rifle could sink the ship, or a standard pleasure boat could outrun it). Building a ship that sacrifices things only halfway is foolish, because it will still sink with the first or at least the second shot from a big ship, and then all that "halfway" armor and fuel has been wasted. The Defiant looks like a ship that has made sacrifices. The Intrepid does not (unless her itty bitty nacelles were indicative of inferior warp performance, but that doesn't seem to be the case). It's too bad that Sternbach is the guy in control of his own ship. We'd know so much better. :) Well, clearly Starfleet had to have some reason for building the Intrepids. Was it because they just lacked ships in that size range? (possible!) Or ships with some specific balance of equipment? (unlikely - the Voyager has the exact same balance as all the Enterprises) Or ships with an improved overall performance? (again possible, but then we should see more of these ships and less of the older types) Sternbach came up with one rationale, somewhat ambiguously worded - the ship "troubleshoots". He once came up with a rationale for the Galaxies, too - they "replace the Ambassadors and Oberths". We creatively interpreted the latter. Surely we can do the same with the former. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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