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In order: Those might be warp core ejection hatches or they might be sensors or anything really.
Yep, those sure look like torp tubes. Which is worrying, torps are long range weapons and side facing weapons are normally short range. The total number of torp tubes on the ship seems to be very high (7 forward in the pod, an unknown number aft in the pod, 2 port, 2 starboard, 3 forward between the shuttle bays and the deflector, 1 forward beneath the deflector). This is silly.
Yep, those are the foward launch bays, they connect to a through deck hanger and hence to the two large rear bays.
The idea that the bridge would go with the engineering section when the ship separates is very odd.
What do you mean? That the weapons pod is replacable? Or that extra pods of some sort can be hung off the pylons?
Nope, the torp launcher doesn't rotate. The four tubes you've circled are merely mounted at different angles to give a wider coverage. As are the three tubes below this and the three tubes above the deflector.
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The total amount of torpedo tubes is an official 15!
The connection points: I mean that the weapons pod can be detached, to make room so that you can put other modules on those connection points on the top of the ship (maybe a Nebula module, or something like that).
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There's nothing official about the number 15. It's just something that Alex Jaeger said. Sure he designed it but the tone of his remark indicates that he was not speaking in order to lay down the law: he was just chucking a few facts and figures out to show how impressive the Akira was. He might have forgotten the exact number and just approximated.
Look at the pictures of the ship in issue 3 of The Magazine. There are 17 or 19 torp tubes depending on whether there are two or four aft firing ones in the pod. To get down to exactly 15 you have three practical options: (a) There are no aft firing tubes or (b) there are four aft firing tubes and those port and starboard thingies aren't tubes or (c) there are aft firing tubes and some of the forward pointing thingies aren't tubes.
Whatever way you look at it the Akira is severely overgunned.
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Heck, SISKO said the Defiant was overgunned and overpowered! And it was established that the recoil from the pulse cannons screwed things up until O'Brien fixed it. What they didn't explain was how energy weapons have recoil. . .
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This may sound waay to newbie for you gentlemen, but I have always wondered what it means to fire a torpedo with varying degrees of "spread", full spread, .75 etc.
Also, I recall a screencap of the Ent-D firing five red photons in a cluster. Anyone care to enlighten me?
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I think a spread is MEANT to indicate a volley of several torpedoes, fired at varying angles to cover a whole area. I wouldn't be surprised if such dialogue then hadn't been compromised by poorly-thought-out FX showing a single torpedo launch, though.
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Sounds 'bout right, First. Anyways, Tom Riker ordered a full spread at a Galor in "Defiant", and the maquis gunner shot three pairs of quantum's. They were solely aimed at the aft section, but as you say, the FX-guys seems to be out of time and patience sometimes...
The torpedo complement does seem to be fairly large on Starfleet ships from what I've heard, so they shouldn't be so cheap on the torp's, but I guess most of the time the storyline forbids a ship to use it's full potential before the end of the ep, am I right?
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The only flaw with the Akira that I have is that any concentrated firing on the forward saucer section impaires it carrier capabilities by damaging the hangers inside.
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To address something that seems to have fallen by the wayside... Why is it odd that the main bridge would go w/ the engineering section? There has to be a bridge of some sort in each section. Just because the E-D had the main bridge in the saucer and the auxiliary bridge in the warp section doesn't mean another ship (of a rather different design, for that matter) can't have it the other way around...
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Wait, why does the final Akira Class have to have 15 torpedo launchers, a shuttlebay that goes from the front of the saucer to the back, and the ability to saucer separate? I mean the Galaxy Class was to be able to land on planets...
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