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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] Hello. I'm not sure whether everyone here may have seen series 3 of ENT, so if you haven't, be forewarned of some minor spoilers below. There is an episode in the 3rd season (the title of which I'm uncertain but think it may have been 'Anomaly') in which Enterprise enters the cloaking field surrounding a Sphere to track down loot stolen by what amount to alien pirates. During this episode, Enterprise lies in wait within the cloaking field to ambush the alien ship so as to hack it's database for information. In the following battle, Enterprise is hampered by not being willing to damage the alien too badly before the hack is completed, but when Archer gives the word to Reed, Enterprise, which has so far only been using phase cannons, opens up on the Alien with a barrage of maybe half a dozen plasma bursts from the cannons we have rarely seen in action since Broken Bow. I could tell we weren't seeing torpedo's. The colour and size and behaviour were different, and the points of origin of these bursts were all on the upper saucer. Now, it seems that the plasma cannons are really quit powerful, because this brief but furious barrage puts the alien ship down straight away. Perhaps we might infer that the plasma weapons are very good short range weapons only. In Broken Bow, we saw them used from much greater ranges. Presumably this proves that both weapons are installed side by side and fully functional. Mark Nguyen suggested in an earlier post that the phasers were on rails and mobile within the interior of the ship. I always had this impression too, recalling the episode in which Reed installs them. Reed appears to be working in a chamber opening into a shaft into which the cannon protrudes and the distinct impression it given from the design and dialogue that the cannon retracts to this central position when not in use, but is deployed either up or down the shaft to fire from either the upper or lower saucer as required. I surmised that Enterprise has only three phasers, firing from six ports in total. The location of the aft torpedo tube vexes me somewhat. Sometimes it seems to emerge from that object suspended between the warp nacelles (which raises questions regarding the location of the magazine for this tube) and sometimes it seems to come from the back lower half of the saucer, which would place that suspended object dangerously close to the line of fire. But then, in just about every star trek design, I've always favoured only having forward firing tubes and relying on the guidance system to get the torpedo to a stern target. Stern tubes never seem to fit well with the designs and often look like they were tacked on as an afterthought. Cheers [/QB][/QUOTE]
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