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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] The Lakota never fired Quantum torpedos, though dialogue suggests she did carry them as a part of her refit. The idea was not that she was a regular Excelsior that they put to E-B spec as part of the refit; as far as I'm concerned, she was already part of that subtype. The upgrade itself supposedly got her a bunch of upgraded phaser mounts in place of her regular mounts (and in numerous other places), quantum torpedos, and upgraded shields. The result was that the Lakota would be able to stand toe to toe with a Defiant for an extended period of time, assuming their crews were roughly equal. In that engagement, both ships were fighting to disable, not to destroy, and the implication is that if either side used q-torps, the fight would be over rather quickly. By the end of the fight, dialogue stated that the Lakota was worse off, and one good hit from the Defiant could have finished them. They had had about two dozen casualties, where the Defiant had about a quarter that with two dead. Fandom analyses conclude that the Lakota upgrade was not necessarily done fleet-wide... If an upgraded Excelsior is only as good as a tiny (but modern) Defiant, better to build a Defiant (or refit a smaller ship) for a similar amount of resources. On the flipside, they seem to have managed to refit the Lakota in a matter of weeks, which is ceertainly less time than it takes to build a new ship keel-up. They may have had field refit packages for lots of ships as part of the build up to the Dominon War, though not necessarily fleet-wide. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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