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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb]if you have enough power for both shields AND CIWS, you dismiss the CIWS and route the power to stronger shields, as this is the better defense. ... Mind you, Kirk does try to shoot down an incoming torp in ST2 - but only because his shields are down. And the attempt is futile to begin with. Timo Saloniemi [/qb][/QUOTE]If you choose to rely only on shields you disadvantage yourself in two ways. - You must do without a layered defence which has the advantage of gradually degrading an enemy attack the closer it gets before it actually impacts on you. - You have created a single point of catastrophic failure. If your shields go down, you're toast. With a combined CIWS and shields approach, the loss of one system doesn't leave you completely vulnerable. However, as you say, Trek never seems to have agreed with that reasoning. Kirk might have had an easier time of it if he'd fired a high yield torpedo equipped with a proximity fuse towards the incoming torpedo. Essentially, this would be a rudimentary missile defence system. We've seen micro torpedos used on vessels such as the Runabouts. Maybe, if we abandon the pulse phasers as being too underpowered to be effective (as you point out with regard to the Jem Hadar attack) and convert our phaser hoses into micro photon turrets with a rapid rate of fire and plentiful ammunition supplies, we get a photon torpedo machine gun! How would a hail of those have effected our Jem Hadar attack ship? One brief burst from a type 10 phaser might not dissuade them, but a continuous hail of anti-matter warheads might be a different matter. Especially if we then go one better and equip them with proximity fuses. Think ack ack in space with warheads of several megatons each! Nasty. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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