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Great pics of the Constellation, I´m getting a little bored seeing only the standard models like the Vor'cha and the Galaxy.
I noticed in an obscure photo the model of the Jem Hadar battleship, how come there are no good pics of that model for instance? Or the Vidiian? What with the Christie's auction and all...
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Looks like I'm heading down to San Diego this weekend...
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Those's are the same models and set pieces I saw at an exhibition in Bournemouth something like ten years ago. No wonder they're starting to fall apart, must have been around the world a dozen times by now.
Actually, looking at this picture, it looks like there are *five* extra phaser nodes around the perimeter.
No kidding- that ship would be a battleship in Kirk's era....probably a match for an Excelsior even. Two impulse plants, four nacelles, bunch o' phasers and four torpedo tubes (if the model can be trusted).
Makes me wonder how many would be in service circa the Dominion War.
Looks like the new phasers are located at the saucer's single-person elevator airlocks.
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I think they sucker-punched them during opening hails. Possibly the Ferengi's alien (and previously unencountered) power systems did not register as a weapons buildup. Or it was a TWOK moment where the Ferengi weapons powered up faster than the Stargazer's shields.
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Didn't the Cardassians do the same thing to him? Jean-Luc is a trusting old soul...
As for the armaments; remember that even though the Stargazer had to be abandoned, it was still able to destroy the Ferengi ship in the time it took them to realise they were shooting at a sensor ghost, presumably with it's shields already up.
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