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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] I suppose I shouldn't have posted such a leading comment on Torpedo tubes without clarifying it. I tend to imagine the complete mess that feeding an aft tube must make of the internal arrangements. For instance, Voyager. Two very widely spaced forward tubes with awful fields of fire, tucked right in under the saucer, so far apart they must logically have separate ammunition feeds. Then the aft tubes, right at the top of the structure, in a location you would think would be better used for other things, perhaps a small shuttle bay or airlock. Where are these tubes fed from? There must be a long and very inconveniently placed hoist from the magazine which feeds the forward tubes located somewhere in the secondary hull. Other than that, there must be two magazines. That's inefficient on what is supposed to be a small ship. Of course, I'm just a pedant. But I still think backward firing tubes on a space ship are irrelevant. If you're going to have aft tubes, why not up and down and left and right tubes as well? I know, that Akira thing supposedly has them, and the Sovereign has them coming out of every possible orifice! The entire interior must be a maze of ammo feeds and individual torpedo magazines. I recall seeing the "Making off...." documentary for Star Trek II in which the gentleman in charge of set design and special effects commented that he had several discussions with the artistic types about staying within their frame of reference. Trek being relatively young at the time, without too much back story baggage or precedents, could still yield somewhat to realism. This gentleman commented on the interior design of the torpedo magazine and said he'd told the director that torpedo's would just be fired from where ever they were stored. Actually, in the film, all these Hornblower style scenes worked quite well, but I completely sympathise with the point that was being made. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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