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The E-A's torpedo launchers seem small. I am guessing that the E-A stored in that neck about 20-30 torpedos. What I am getting at if the E-A was designed with a thicker neck how much more do you think it could fit?
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I don't know but the Connie neck seems like a pretty dubious place to store photon torpedo warheads, armed ones at least. It just seems so narrow and unprotected. Klingon intelligence gets a hold of the news and every engagement would have the boneheads going for the neck every time. Although the launcher is located at the base of the dorsal connector it is firmly rooted atop the engineering hull, so it is in a better position than say mid neck. Although the neck is meant to separate in an emergency I would not like to invite emergencies by storing dangerous weaponry in an easily targetable section. Perhaps the bulk of the warheads (sans antimatter combustibles) are stored up in the neck, and they only send up the matter/antimatter charges during red alert status from the deeply protected innards of the engineering hull, where antimatter is stored in bulk. Of course the placement of the launchers makes sense then, because the launchable tubes coming down and the M/AM rising up, would then meet in the middle. Just my thoughts.
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Well, Rain Man, the whole area was fired upon by Khan, didn't do much except make it inhabitable. I don't think they designed torpedoes to go off without detonating them.
Now, would you rather store the torpedoes deep in the bowels of the ship so that it A: would need an ingenious tram-system to transport the goodies to the launchers (which would take even longer than the +-5 minutes it usually took as it was), and B: blow up the whole ship if they DID go off in such a tight entrenchment?
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I get the impression that antimatter containment is one of the most serious concerns aboard a ship. No matter WHERE the reactants are stored, if the containment fields drop, there's gonna be a whole lotta hurtin' goin' on. And besides, I don't think the torps are even armed (loaded, yes, but not armed) until they're in the firing tube(s).
And lastly, it has been pointed out that the E seen in TWoK and TSfS had been serving as a training vessel, and that the manual torpedo operations were probably an Enterprise-specific retrofit to teach teamwork and the like, even though the actual skills wouldn't be needed on a regular Starfleet ship -- like the Eagle and the Constitution for the United States presently. This supposition is backed up by what we saw of the torpedo facilities in TUC.
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Matrix, I've turned off email notification on this thread. It seems that AOL has pulled another one of their infamous stupidity acts and have blocked all outgoing mail from FutureQuest.
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If Khan decided to fire torpedoes instead of phasers then what? Instead of just a breach along that side, what you'll get a either a large hole in the neck where BOTH tubes are useless OR the entire neck is severed where now the saucr is a sitting duck in terms of speed and fire power.
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