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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] This of course has to be meshed with various plot contrivances and tendencies for the show. One thing we've noticed in recent Trek is that the bad guys tend to always have ships that are smaller/inferior to the ship in question (Voyager and Enterprise have this in abundance). In Voyager, the Delta Flyer was created in part to open up the more indiidualized storytelling options you can get from smaller ships and their smaller crews - not to mention Top Gun-esque VFX sequences. In the present, TV (and movie) budgets can easily take several new ship designs on a weekly basis as needs require - one of the reasons we rarely saw proper shuttles for so long in TOS and TNG was simply because they couldn't afford to do it right. Now they can, and so they'll let their writers come up with stories that use these options. Bringing this back, as a result of this the galaxy is now filled with lots of small ships where there were few before. Whatever the reason in the Trek universe, it has resulted in a need for tactical options for attack and defence on the big starships. As such, runabii, fighters, and CIWS-style weapons will find a niche in Starfleet's new and refitted designs. One can only speculate if such weapons were strapped onto other designs as well. For example, the 15+ tube Akira could have been designed that way with small-craft defence and assault in mind, especially given that it was designed as a fighter carrier. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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