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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE] Subs use torpedoes, the Enterprise uses phasers, but lets make the phasers look like torpedoes (and depth charges to a degree).[/QUOTE]If we take the analogy to its logical limits, people expecting to see a WWII destroyer-vs-sub fight would not expect the destroyer to fire torpedoes. Submarines would be shelled by guns, or bombed by depth charges, or peppered by hedgehog spreads. And by the story logic, the "destroyer" didn't even know that "submarines" existed prior to the battle, so she shouldn't have either "depth charges" or "hedgehogs" aboard - but she could and would use her cannon. Some of this may have affected how the episode was written. A weapon like depth charges was needed in the story, but it would make no sense for such a weapon to already be aboard the [i]Enterprise[/i]. The second best choice was to use some kind of existing or plausibly introduced new Trek weapon, and "phaser" conflicted less with the WWII analogy than anything containing the recognizable words "torpedo" or "missile" or "rocket" or "bomb" or "mine". Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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