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I always assumed L&B were *very* lousy shots, considering the E-D was pretty much a gigantic floating target with two extremely vulnerable areas (main bridge / deflector array).
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quote: The only possible explanation is that the SIF is capable of not only reinforcing the hull, but of actually serving as a last-ditch gamma radiation shunt that absorbs the radiation and redirects it away... much like the shields, only weaker.
I seam to recall Saavik mentioning defence fields being energised in TWoK, before the shields proper went up.
quote: But back to the "punch through" issue, I always thought that this scene from ST VI (as impressive as it looked) was never a realistic effect a torpedo should have. It should have exploded at the moment of the impact and should have torn apart half of the saucer. That torpedo was a dud.
Wouldn't it be possible to configure a torpedo to produce a shaped explosion that focuses most of the energy forwards, rather than wasting the energy by letting most of it be deflected back into space with a standard spherical explosion? This would be by far, a more tactically useful weapon, especially if your going for a kill shot. Imagine the effect if such a hit blew clean through the secondary hull, it'd take out the cargo bay for a start and do some serious damage to the warp reactor system, maybe even take out the warp core itself.
It would be sort of like detonating a nuke at a specific altitude to get the maximum amount of destruction.
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