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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Templar: [QB] *crack knuckles* OOUCH! I mean, here I go. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Prismatic EdipisReks: [qb]other than the Big O, we never saw a Galaxy class destroyed by the Jem'Hadar. theory killed.[/qb][/QUOTE]There might have been one in the graveyard scene in "CFoE", I can't remember for sure. Anyone got a screen cap? [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [qb]One problem with Trek ships is that they don't necessarily have to be bigger to be better. Sternbach has posited often that ships as small as the Intrepid and Defiant can mount a Type-X phaser, which would therefore match the firepower and range of a Galaxy's primary beam armament. Phaser endurance and rate of fire would likely be factors, however it means that a much smaller ship can have a similar punch at least at the outset as Starfleet's biggest.[/qb][/QUOTE]*shoots Mark with an Isomagnetic Doohicky* Type-X phasers relies on the coupling effect for most of its power, so the more emitter segments, the better. Each emitter only dishes out 5.1MW, so you need a lot of them working together to get anywhere. The short little strip on the Defiant, or even the larger forward strips on the Intrepid, no where near matches the forward arrays on the Galaxy or Nebula. If they're even Type-X emitters, that is. The emitters on the Defiant and Intrepid both look a size different from the Type-X on the Galaxy. If I got a dollar everytime someone at the TrekBBS said the Defiant had more fire power than a Galaxy, I could afford to go to those American anime cons. :p [QUOTE]Originally posted by Dat: [qb]Now hold on, I'm not defending BWC, but he's got a point here. Just because we never saw any GCS being destroyed on screen by the Dominion (other than Odyssey) nor have heard of any being destroyed, it doesn't mean it never happened. We did see quite of few GCS in the fleets, but it doesn't mean we saw all of them. We don't know how many were put into service for the war. It's possible a few were destroyed. [/qb][/QUOTE]Certainly possible. When entirely Fleets are lost, like what happened with the 7th, and the fleet at Chin'Taka, you'd expect a few Galaxy to buy the farm. However, generally when we see Galaxies in action, they're usually kicking butt. Even when the Cardassian OWPs were slaughtering other ships by the handfuls in "Tears of the Prophets" (2 Akiras destroyed within the first 15 seconds of the platforms coming online :eek: ), the Galaxy held up alright (comparatively speaking). [QUOTE][qb]Now for saucer sep in the fleets, it's 50/50 on whether a captain would do it. Sure you have the extra impules engines, sensors, phasers, etc that comes with the saucer. But with the separated saucer, you've also got an extra torpedo launcher, and the primitive "multi-vector" thing going seen with the Prommie class. In effect, you now have two ships able to go after you enemy and they now have extra targets to get rid of.[/qb][/QUOTE]Problem with that is the extra torpedoe launcher is point [i]backwards[/i]. And there is no time to recover the saucer and run if the things go bad. The only useful thing you open up is the phaser array in front of the battle bridge, but in the long run it's not worth it. A separated saucer section's impulse drive has to both propell and power the saucer, limiting the amount of power going to the phasers dramatically. At full phaser power, the saucer section runs out of juice for its phasers in less than 15 minutes. In normal operation, the endurance for phaser jumps to around 45 minutes. Really big difference. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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