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This one has been bugging me for a while, but I've never gotten around to posting it. As some of you remember, it was put in I believe Star Trek: The Magazine some design sketches of how the Sovereign's yacht would drop from the bottom of the main torpedo launcher on the unside of the saucer for Insurrection. In these sketches, we can see the bay inside, and part of the torpedo launcher. Unfortunatly, what we do see of the torpedo launcher, is the very front, where the torpedo exits the ship. This picture shows that the launcher briefly turns downward at about a 45 degree angle, then returns to horizontal before the end. Now, the question is, how could a torpedo, which would be at tremendous speed at that point in the launch sequence, suddenly change direction like that inside the tube? I think that this Yacht bay thing needs a lot more thinking out.
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Maybe they kept in the middle of somesort of magnetic field, so the torpedo stays in the center of the tube and dosn't brush into the wall. Just an idea.
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I thought I had that sketch on my harddrive. I have it in a book but I don't have access to a scanner rightnow. Could someone post it please. Thanks.
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About the Enterprise-E's Torpedo Tube and the Captains yacht. You got this from a design sketch, does anyone have any good pics of the launch scene from Insurrection. I trust video more then a drawing.
BTW, you guys find any wrong info in this?
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701-E -Sovereign Class Starship -Commanded by: Captain Jean-Luc Picard -Length: 685.2 Meters -Height: 88 Meters -Number of Decks: 24 -Launched: 2372 Stardate:49027.5 -Constructed: San Francisco Yards -Number of Phasers: 12 Type-X Phaser Arrays -Number of Torpedo Tubes: 5 Quantum/Photon Torpedo Tubes -Saucer Seperation: Yes -Main Bridge: Deck 1 -Main Engineering: Deck 16 -Sickbay: Deck 8/16 -Captain Picard's Living Quarters: Deck 7 -Max Impulse: Unknown -Max Warp: Unknown -Number of Crew: 700-900 -Number of Shuttlebays: 2 -Type of Shuttles: XI -Captain's Yacht: Yes -Name of Captain's Yacht: Cousteau -Length of Captain's Yacht: 33.53 Meters -Bio Neural Gel Packs: Yes -Hull: Duranium
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Anywho, Cartman is the new guy, I brought him here, he is the "Sovereign Expert", lets see how he does with the big boys. Oh, and he's a Crazy Canuck
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Ty, Matt. I do consider myself an "expert" on the Sovereign Class. Ever since November 1996 I have been been going crazy trying to get as much info on the Sovereign class, I love them.
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Is it possible to be an "expert" on the Prometheus??? I thought there wasn't any info on it?
About the plumbing of the torp-tube, it could be that the torps are hauled down the first section of the tube, then halted at the "turn", where they can be fired one-after-another, like with a machine-gun clip.
I think the tube would have some sort of magnetic railing device or gauss-device to push the slugs out, and then the torp's own propulsion-system takes over. But the tracking is poor. When Defiant fired quantum-volleys, they hardly ever compensated at all for target movement. Guess the producers doesn't want Starfleet to be too good, eh?
No, I say give me the Prometheus-launcher!! That's one slick photon-system, flying around until it has found a target. You can just pump out those babies and tell them to track enemy-signatures! That's what the borg/voy-torps did against Species 8472, didn't they???
Oh, and Cartman? I don't trust the E's FIVE torpedo-launchers or saucer-separation capabilities. It certainly hasn't been proven in the movies. Has it been confirmed from Big "P" or something, or is it just wishful thinking?
And what does TPTB mean??? The Powers That Be?
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5 torpedo launchers seems right: - 1 Q-torp in front of the Captain's Yacht. - 2 Photon torpedo launchers under the deflector dish (used to destroy the tractor beam which was holding the Defiant). - 2 rear torpedo launchers (one on the lowest part of the ship that you can find, the other somewhere above the saucer shuttlebay, as seen in Insurrection where the torpedos went over the nacelles).
Saucer seperation: Seen in one of the latest scetches. Seperation lines are clearly visible on the Ent-E AND match the scetch.
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BTW: The Ent-E seems to have a modest tracking system. Both the Q-torps aimed at the Borg Sphere and the torpedos fired at the Son'a ships were going in a slightly curved trajectory.
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Well, I suppose I could be the expert on the Nebula class... A friend of mine is an expert on the Ambassador class...
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Here's that sketch with the saucer separation, though that just might be a neat idea and not something that they used. We will have to wait to see until ST:X to see if it does.
Here's that supposed torpedo launcher above the Shuttlebay. That was designed to be a shuttle observation area to coordinate multiple shuttle launches and recoveries.
And here is a sketch of the rear torpedo launchers: So it does have two in front, two in back, and one under the captain's yacht.
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Crap, everyone's an expert on a class but me!
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