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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] [QUOTE]we get a photon torpedo machine gun![/QUOTE]This would be a good rationale for the addition of so many short-barreled torpedo launchers to the E-E during/after the Dominion war. Prior to this, there might well have been a doctrinal disbelief in proximity defense phasers: devoting resources to those would have been seen as redundant when primary phasers were available to pick on the incomings before they hit the shields. Shields in turn need not be a single point of failure, but a layered defense unto themselves. For a possible scenario, when the surge capacitors fail, there are still the primary generators, then the backup generators, then the tertiary generators and the plasma expansion discharger, then the EPS surge loops and backfeed buffers... To say that a system like that would be a single failure point would be akin to saying that AEGIS is a single failure point for the [i]Ticonderoga[/i] class. Modern tank drivers generally don't wear steel-plate armor and carry swords for the sake of "layering" in passive and active protection, either... At some point, one should give up those defensive technologies that give diminishing returns, and concentrate on those that work. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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