Jim Phelps
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Hmm...looks to me like BoPs have a launcher shutter...maybe there are some kind of particles which could enter the ship if the lid is left open for too long, or what about decompression?
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Maybe they ran out of torpedoes? Wait a second, did the Bird of Prey that Lursa and B'tor use to damage the Enterprise-D use it's torp lancher?
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Yes, it did, actually. In the opening volley they shot, at least.
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Maybe the BoPs in DS9 are a different type that can't fire torpedos (just kidding). Oh yeah, remember that K't'inga that fired a disruptor blast from its torpedo launcher in "Way of the Warrior"? Now, that was a rather stupid mistake.
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Well, when I first saw "Way of the Warrior", I assumed that the different weaponry was supposed to be a visual clue that these were more modern versions of the K'tinga. Of course, I'm an apologist by nature.
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Weren't the K'tinga's different colours anyway? For that matter, how many times did we see a K'Tinga actually shoot torpedoes from that opening. IIRC, once. Perhaps THAT ship was the mistake.
That open/closed shutter thing looks confusing, because I thought they used the same BOP model from ST III in the TV shows (whereas I think the K'Tingas are all CGI'd. They only appeared in the show rarely, and always in stock footage before WOTW). Why would they alter the model like that? The open pic look like a shot form ST III (That was reused in Redemption, when IIRC the rings lit up before a torp was fired). The second pic I'm not sure about. It is from ST IV?
Actually, is the BOP the oldest ship (from a production design POV) that's still in use (as the Excelsior and Miranda have changed designs more tham once, whereas the BOP hasn't as far as I can see).
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Sol: No need to apologise - I honestly liked your theory. No-prize is actually a complement of sorts.
PsyLiam: I'm pretty sure they used the K't'inga model in "WotW". Is the K't'inga-class officially decommissioned? If not, that would be the oldest in use.
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Yes, the K'Tinga's where in WoTW. Strange though that they fired red disruptor blasts at DS9 in stead of green. And solid rays too, not energy balls. IIRC, that's the only time they fired phasers, I never saw it in TOS.
The Bird of Prey's have fired torps sometimes, when chasing mirror Bashir and mirror Jadzia in "Shattered Mirror" for example. Alas, our heroes had learned the spell of "Warp shadows" so the torps bounced off all over the place.
It's funny, when Spock saved Kirk from the fake god's wrath in ST:V, they partially used blast sounds from starwars TIE:s in the BoP disruptors. Makes sense though, there both ILM.
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