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Hey, that's actually a pretty cool idea, to mix the two kinds of phasers... although IMO there was never any doubt about their viability since they totally replaced the old point phasers on the Ambassador-class. Also, part of the point of having the phaser arrays rather than point emitters was to provide for somewhat wider coverage -- looking at your arrangement, I don't know if the point emitters on the saucer provide any real benefit. (Having point emitters on some of the rear sections where coverage is weaker anyway might be a better idea?)
Rambling comment: I've recently started to wonder why Starfleet ships have such unified armament classifications, especially regarding the phasers. The vast majority of seagoing warships in the past 100 years or so on Earth have had mixed armaments of varying types (the "dreadnought" type battleships being an exception). Take the Galaxy-class, for example -- why not have the two main saucer phasers as their heavy Type-X arrays, and the other ones as Type-VIII's or something? They wouldn't be as powerful, but they might also have benefits of their own -- especially because those emplacements are used a whole lot less.
Anyway, Lobo, this design of yours is really shaping up. I love it!
(BTW, have you come up with a name yet?)
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Well maybe not the Galaxy class, maybe smaller classes like the Akira class, or the Sabre class. Or perhaps the Norway class?
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