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I've wondered about that two. In the DS9:TM *shudders*, it says that the materials to make Quantum Torpedoes are really rare, so they are only delivered to ships on the front line of the Dominion War like DS9 and the Defiant.
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Altair, what I mean is I wonder if all of the Enterprise-E's Torpedo tubes can fire both Photon and Quantum Torpedo's. Like can the Enterprise fire Quantum Torpedo's from it's aft tubes, or can they only fire Quantums from the forword Tube that we saw fire Quantums in FC
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As I've said on RAST, a magrail is a magrail. Probes, photorps, TCDs, quantorps...they're all fired from the same damn launcher. The only reason the idea of the separate launcher assembly persists is because of the initial FC concept of Picard popping open the one they considered & firing them that way. Then they realized that it was STUPID.
Think about it: you've got a brand-new warhead assembly. It's small enough to utilize a casing size comparable to the existing inventory & thus utilize that launch hardware. Do you A) design a brand-new launching system that can only be incorporated into newbuild vessels & retrofitted into some older ships or B) design the casing to fit the current standardized launch assemblies?
Y'don't have to be a member of the Appropriations Board t'figure THAT one out.
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