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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] the opening left though, is that while large fighters seem to have warp drives and independant capability, there is still the nominal possibility of a sub-light fighter design, between the size of a shuttle and a shuttlepod.. a GCS or any vessel could potentially support dozens of these.. the only problem is they dont fit into the milieu very well, since most Trek battles are at Warp Speed and with heavily shielded vessels.. however, sublight fighters could be useful in space-station assaults or planetary interdiction.. but it seems these special purpose craft would hardly be standard issue for long range starships, possibly they are only used in inner space scenarios, which would actually create the need fora carrier design to deploy them, since it would simply be inefficient to include them in anybody else's arsenal, for their near uselessness in many situations. BTW, i liked Diane Carey's depiction of sublight attackcraft, she called them sleds, they were a little bigger than a shuttlepod but smaller than a full scale short-rang-warp shuttlecraft, and could only be used in specialized situations.. the original Enterprise only had a handful (in "Dreadnought!") and Starbase 10 deployed some for a diplomatic retrieval in "Red Sector" (they were used as the equivalent of a choppers jet-fighter cover in a 'last flight from Saigon'-type scenario).. so basically it makes sense that we never see them, since the whole of filmed star Trek doesnt deal with these types of scenario [/QB][/QUOTE]
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