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It was used by Martok in 'Sons and Daughters', when the Rotarran was escorting a convoy and was attacked by Jem'Hadar bugs. Tactic wasn't named.
Dropped to a quater-impulse, let the bug overfly, and then gave them a few seconds disruptors (no torpedoes though *rant*).
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The First One
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D'Oh! The Picard Manoeuvre! Oh, well, it only works on ships without FTL sensors, but I'll maybe include it. One question: is it really a safe assumption that it was one of those Ferengi ships of the kind we've always seen, as depicted in the Encyclopaedia?
*rubs hands with glee at prospect of using PSP blur filter to simulate warp drive effects* 8)
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Ferengi Marauders seem too advanced to not have FTL sensors. It was probably an earlier class that's not used anymore. Although, I suppose they could have refit newer Marauders with FTLS. Who knows???
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It has been assumed by some, and I tend to agree with this line of thinking, that the Ferengi ship's sensor systems had been knocked out earlier in the battle.
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The First One
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Yes, I know. And the links to both on Jim Stephenson's Ship Schematics Database are broken. Can someone rustle me up a quick scan of a Marauder side view?
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*click* Zenk you, mein Herr. 8)
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Just because we've only seen two types of Ferengi ships doesn't mean there were never others, especially if those aren't in use anymore. Besides, if the one at Maxia Zeta had been a D'Kora, wouldn't Picard, in "The Battle", have been likely to say something like "Y'know, I think I've seen a ship like that before someplace..."? Granted, he wouldn't necessarily have remembered, but, if it had been intended by the writers to be the same kind of ship, I would expect them to do something like that...
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Well, I did one interim animation, but I'm not that happy with it - I know I can do it better. I'm happy to leave the Ferengi ship as a D'Kora, because it doesn't actually do anything except sit there relative to the supposed position of the Stargazer, which then leaps forward. The problem I'm having is how to depict the apparently unchanging distance of the Stargazer (going by non-FTL sensors) when it's really jumping to warp. But I'll get there, even my original attempt is pretty good (if I say so myself). 8)
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The Picard Manoeuvre (from "The Battle")
Having sustained heavy damage from an unknown attacker (later identified as Ferengi), Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Stargazer knows that the foe are merely biding their time until his ship's systems completely fail. However, some of their actions suggest to him that their FTL sensors are either inoperative or non-existent. He therefore exhausts his ship's warp capability in leaping forward to catch up, trusting that the enemy will not be able to detect his warp signature until he appears next to them. The tactic is successful and the enemy destroyed, but battle damage forces Picard and his crew to abandon ship, leaving the Stargazer for dead.
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