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Originally posted by LT. COL. John Sheppard View PostEnterprise E or Nero's Narada
It's kind of funny watching the original series. If you just treat them like two different shows and forget the fact the Ent D and E are supposed to come later, the ships in the original one are actually massively more capable in combat thanks to the whole FTL brawling thing. I don't think any other visual sci-fi has that and it's a total game changer. If you can't do it and your opponent can you basically auto lose.
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Originally posted by Ouroboros View PostNope. Kirk's Enterprise might actually have a shot though. It seems to do its fighting at warp speeds and TOS includes quite a few examples of them shooting at things beyond visual range, even with phasers.
It's kind of funny watching the original series. If you just treat them like two different shows and forget the fact the Ent D and E are supposed to come later, the ships in the original one are actually massively more capable in combat thanks to the whole FTL brawling thing. I don't think any other visual sci-fi has that and it's a total game changer. If you can't do it and your opponent can you basically auto lose.
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I'm not sure if torps in the new trek can go to warp or just stay at warp. The TOS ones obviously could though. I'm also thinking along the lines of they have excellent sensors, cheap anti matter production and small warp drives so why aren't we getting shuttle sized ship and planet killing missiles.
Throw a cloak on it if you're a Romulan or Klingon and you can effectively hold the entire quadrant hostage.
The whole alpha quadrant should basically be a big cold war in space with everyone afraid to really do anything hostile because they've all got their fingers on a button that'll send thousands of warp capable anti matter missiles flying at each other's populated planets.
This actually highlights one of the major reasons why the Andromeda tends to dominate so badly. It really gets the most out of the tech the universe that made it has available. That's to say it's pretty hard to speculate on seemingly obvious improvements to its design that were apparently just blindly overlooked.
The Andromeda isn't even a dedicated ship killer in its own setting. It's a command and control ship meant to coordinate fleets and be a sort of jack of all trades. Yet it still crushes.Last edited by Ouroboros; 16 May 2012, 08:04 AM.
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Originally posted by Ouroboros View PostI'm not sure if torps in the new trek can go to warp or just stay at warp. The TOS ones obviously could though.
I'm also thinking along the lines of they have excellent sensors, cheap anti matter production and small warp drives so why aren't we getting shuttle sized ship and planet killing missiles.
Throw a cloak on it if you're a Romulan or Klingon and you can effectively hold the entire quadrant hostage.
The whole alpha quadrant should basically be a big cold war in space with everyone afraid to really do anything hostile because they've all got their fingers on a button that'll send thousands of warp capable anti matter missiles flying at each other's populated planets.
This actually highlights one of the major reasons why the Andromeda tends to dominate so badly. It really gets the most out of the tech the universe that made it has available. That's to say it's pretty hard to speculate on seemingly obvious improvements to its design that were apparently just blindly overlooked.
The Andromeda isn't even a dedicated ship killer in its own setting. It's a command and control ship meant to coordinate fleets and be a sort of jack of all trades. Yet it still crushes.
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The Battle Star Galactica. Assuming they launched all the squadrons. Anyhow, the real issue is how to hit it. In star trek, the computer cores are surrounded by a warp field to allow ftl computations... if we armed a few drones with that and gave them some sort of ftl drive... well then we might as well use that armada of smart bombs from that episode of star trek voyager... Im pretty sure tuvok said that they were comparable to tricobalt devices...
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