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Much better thank you. I tried looking at them but it only keeps loading at members4.clubphoto, then a "There was no response, yaddah yaddah yaddah" sign comes...
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1138: I know, just within a very limited target radius. It's almost like the modern "sidewinder" or "Sparrow" short and medium range missiles, you have to be pretty much dead on or it'll miss, the guidance systems are pretty delicate...
The only three times good homing has been utilized in Trek (in my experience, mind you) was in "The Undiscovered Country" where a gas-sniffing little bugger tracked up Chang, some target practice on small asteroids courtesy of Worf testing new torpedoes in TNG, and the heavily modified borg torpedoes in "Scorpion, Pt II".
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In "Yesterday's Enterprise" a (full) spread of torpedos was fired at three ships hitting all of them. In "Way of the Warrior" Deep Space 9 fires alot of torpedos many find their targets. In "First Contact" all of the torpedos fired (except those intentionally misguided by Data)in the movie hit their targets. In "Generations" an old Bird of Prey, which has presumably less sophisticated weapons systems can target with great accuracy.
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damm club photo crap! is there a good [free] server people recommend anywhere? that like allow linking pics to be viewed by people in europe?
any way torpedos can tract a target pretty successfully the klingon torpedos tracked the excelsior at warp in that voyager episold
the ones fired by Ds9 were not a good example-since so many whizzed by their targets-you can only assume they must be coming back eventualy in an arc..
but enough about torpedos LOL
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The F0rce: It's not that the servers don't like European surfers, it's that a lot of people don't have ultra-high-speed connections. Large images take a long time to load.
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I think every torp has a homing device on it however ships could dodge the torps if fast enough.
Now for the orginal topic, it fits the Borg to have so many specilized ships to not waste resources by sending in a Bord Cube to destroy a shuttle. The Tac. type 4 was probably built to combat some unknown alien race.
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Or simply anyone putting up a good fight. Remember, Voyager chose the cube, not the other way around.
dih1138: Are you not listening? All the incidents you mentioned had the attacker already lined up with the target before shooting. I'm talking about the torpedo's ability to chase a target. And I have only seen three examples.
What quality were those pics you posted, anyway, F0rce? 1280x1024 at 32bpp or what?
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The Borg cube in First Contact was a physical model, not CGI. It was 3-foot square, if I recall correctly (which isn't very large, especially when compared with the Enterprise-E model).
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Lined up? Targets move thats why torpedos home. Even if a ship were exactly lined up with a torpedo tube, it would only be that way for an instant. You mentioned Star Trek torpedos being like modern sparrows & sidewinders, I disagree, the torpedos that we are talking about are more like Harpoon or Tomahawk SSMs (very primitive by Star Trek standards...)
I meant lined up as in facing the opponent, I didn't mean "crosshairs". The Ent-D was facing the BoP's, the Ent-E was flying straight at the 3500m wide cube, hard to miss. The Defiant, however, often missed with it's quantum torpedoes, like the dual volley against a Galor, in "Defiant".
Jeez, I was being sarcastic about Trek-torps missing sometimes, you do NOT need to teach me that torpedos in fact have homing capabilities.
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