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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] "I think you might be putting too much emphasis on the "shooting" part of the term "troubleshooting". Troubleshooting takes many forms, from diplomatic squabbles to potentially hostile situations. However, in general, Galaxy Class firepower was not required for most of the troubleshooting situations we saw the Galaxy Class engage in. One thing is pretty clear: if the Enterprise-D is any indication of what the Galaxy Class was often up to, then exploration of the distant reaches was often not their primary role. " Ah a'grey. :) The Ent-D was a flagship likewise, always there to make an statement by appearing, a bit like the aircraft carriers today. But then, that was also the mission of the Constitutions -- patrol work and exploring (if you read The Making of Star Trek). Troubleshooting doesn't make these lesser explorers, though if you call a ship a "Troubleshooter" instead of "Explorer", it's clear you're leaning more towards the patrol ship side of the job. "In any case, though, the notion of Intrepids as "super-warships" makes no sense, at least not as you've described it thus far. Besides which, if the Intrepids are the Federation's troubleshooters (which suggests that they'd be relegated to duties within or very near the Federation), then when war came they'd still be troubleshooting, a la Picard and the E-E in Insurrection. Indeed, they'd have to be doing *more* troubleshooting, since other starships that often got troubleshooting duties were now taking on Dominion warships." Yes, but that doesn't necessarily make them less armed or capable of defending themselves. Ok, I'll concede that "superwarship" is a bit too informal; how about "extremely well armed"? I suggested in an earlier post that they might be used for special purposes because they're so few in number. Similarily, we haven't seen much of the Defiants in the war, although they can be built fairly quickly. Starfleet is likely to want to hold on to these for special missions. As for the discussion about weaponry, while the Intrepid does store fewer torpedoes at a time, it's also storing tricobalt devices, as you've mentioned, while the torpedoes can be replenished onboard. In general, comparing the exact counts and numbers doesn't help us because the Intrepid could easily have more advanced torpedoes and phasers (we've heard something of 80 isoton or 200 isoton torpedoes on the show). If the official article says it has weaponry "at least equal to the phaser and photon torpedoes of the Galaxy-class", I see no reason not to believe it -- it's a pretty strong statement to compare its weaponry to that of GCS to the first place, and then it simply uses the word "equal" instead of "equal in type" or "equal in number." If someone says that the white man is equal to the black man, I wouldn't interpret this as "equal in height". The word "equal" is much more encompassing. And as for giving the Galaxy tricobalts -- where are they? The Defiant is firing quantum torpedoes all the time during battles, but no other ships are except for the Lakota and the Ent-E. These weapons are probably as scarce as the ships they're used on. Timo: I agree about the way things are in the real world, but let's keep in mind that Starfleet is experiencing a bit of a technology boom. The computer storage has suddenly jumped from kiloquads to teraquads (see Bernd's page), the isolinear gel packs are there, the Intrepid uses a transporter effect seen nowhere else. Hence, if we apply this to the weaponry likewise (torpedoes with isoton ratings exceeding quantum torpedoes in the DS9TM!) it probably needs to sacrifice very little. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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