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Yeah....but that'd be one excessive refit. Why change the lifeboats? Older ships do fine with their galaxy style square lifeboats...
And older ships tend to keep their old pennants (even aincent ship classes like the Miranda and Excelsior) after decades worth of refits and upgrades.
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Don't forget, those squares are only lifeboat HATCHES. Voyager had squares, but had hexagonal pods concealed underneath. Defiant had hex pods in groups under irregular hatches, and so on. While there is no real corollary between hatches and pod types, for all we know there are simply two kinds of ways to deploy pods, for example.
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Then why new hatches on an older starship? The phasers are all wrong for a 5xxxx era ship too.
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No, they aren't. For example Steamrunners, with even lower registries, have those. Offscreen or off-focus, we know that the registries of many Galaxy-kitbash, strip-phaser ships go down that far, too (New Orleans, Springfield, Challenger, even Nebula).
And the triangular lifeboat style is ages-old, too, since that's the Steamrunner configuration as well. Of course, it is theoretically possible that registries are indeed completely screwed and Steamrunners are incredibly modern ships, too - but they don't look like that, really. Not that there would be any specific trends in starship design that we could follow...
I'm quite ready to buy into the idea that Akiras as seen are late models of an old design. Some of the torpedo tubes look like hasty retrofits, too (at least those under the pod proper), and could speak of upgunning of a design that originally wasn't on par with the later and more advanced armament of the Galaxies and their ilk. (If the purpose was to upgun to post-Galaxy levels, then I'd expect such additions on Galaxies and Nebulas as well.)
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There are probably three more forward launchers where the bulge and the saucer meet (judging by the way the torpedoes fire in FC) so it's not quite that bad...
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The Akira fires a couple of torps from the "notch" at the front of the saucer, so they're not all concentrated in that pod.
I dont buy the screwy registry numbers on the Akira, Sabre and Steamrunner: it's just a VFX error to drive us crazy (like the Prommie's 5xxxx).
The registry numbers might corespond to diffrent shipyards (7xxxx might refer to ships built at UT for example) but that makes dating starships by registry imposible.
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Man, you guys arnt giving props to my man Alex Jeager at ILM. The Akira is supposed to be a fanboy's wet dream. Its designed spec is a beast of a ship with a fly-though shuttlebay and dual warp cores.
Let me see if I can dig up my old emails to Alex at ILM.
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Dating by registries isn't exact, I grant that... but it is generally correct--- we'd argue over the stuff that registry dating is inconsistent on whether or not we used registry's in a dating scheme.
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quote:Originally posted by Dat: But you also said "2 standard rapid-fire torpedo launchers on the saucer, firing forward and aft."
Well, yes... I said that. I don't know about you, but I think that torpedo launchers firing forward and aft shouldn't be located on port and starboard side, but on forward and aft side
In short, you confused single-fire torpedo launchers (located mostly, but not exclusively on the pod) with rapid-fire torpedo launchers, located on the saucer, and saucer only.
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