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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb] and weapons have ranges akin to those of machine guns! [/qb][/QUOTE]Good point, which begs the question of why we don't see CIWS style weapons in Star Trek. We've seen numerous apparently shortranged weapons with very high rates of fire in Babylon 5 and a similar setup for the main armament of Galatica in BSG. In both cases, the rapid fire weapons are used to hose down the surrounding "space" space (as opposed to "air" space ;) ). In Trek we tend to see weapons that are almost exclusively designed for longer ranges[b]*[/b]. Coherent beam weapons (phasers and the like) with a long recycle rate between firings and torpedos which in most cases are only fired two or three at a time, appear to have very poor manoeuvrability and self guidance and never seem to do much more damage than a phaser burst. I'm not counting the Defiant with it's pulse phasers as these weapons seem to be fixed, requiring the Defiant itself to manoeuvre to aim them. A serious design flaw if ever there was one, and one which nullifies the distinct advantages of these weapons. They should have been mounted in omnidirectional turrets on larger vessels instead. The Galaxy class could have one on each side of that vulnerable neck, one above the saucer sections hangar and one beneath the engineering hull. Anything that strays within a minimum range gets hosed, including incoming torpedos. [b]*[/b](The only exceptions to this rule I can think of are Movie based references: ST:II in which we see paired burst firing phasers which used in conjunction with each other can achieve a rapid cyclic rate, and that single gas homing torpedo in ST:VI that destroyed the cloaked bird of prey over Khitomer.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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