Topic: The Captain's Chair CD: your opinion of the Connie

[Atrahasis]

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i do remember a TNG episode where a facility was cloaked to keep an eye on a civilization once. granted it was a planet observation post post but it was a cloaked federation one  

It wasn't a cloak, but a hologram porjector, and the episode was TNG "Who watches the watchers".  

[Atrahasis]

See, the conundrum is this: There is at least one Paramount diagram and various Paramount sources (KA for one) which say that the TOS Connie had at least aft phaser banks and even a torp tube. Howevr, if this is true then why does the Refit Connie not have an aft torp tube? Why would they get rid of a perfectly good weapon like that when the geenral idea was to ADD more weapons on the ship to make it powerful enough to take on the latest Kling ships (which by the way have aft torps of course, so it's not an issue of "turning tail and running").

Hmmmm

I like to think the TOS Connie had at least aft phasers below the clamshell doors, becaus there are actually a series of lit greeblies there that COULD be phasers or something like that, but you don't have a similar arrangement on the Refit Connie, whose aft phasers are positioned ABOVE the clamshell doors. In fact, if those greeblies were not aft phasers and were instead some kind of navigational landing device/arrangement then obviously they are not really needed because the TMP refit does away with them completely. So, you could surmise that they are not for that purpose, and hence could be weapon hardpoints. The mind reels.  

[Atrahasis]

However, with the "aft torp" hypothesis there arises a problem: if there is a tube on that deck then there is not any or very little room for the "shuttle pad" which accoridng to the Tech Manual descends from the main hangar and into that bottom deck which houses additional shuttles. HOWEVER.....I might point out that I don't think we ever ever saw that little round shuttle pad descend into teh lower deck in an episode. We saw it turn 180 degrees to make the shuttle face the doors ready to launch, but the idea that it actually descends into the lower deck may be just Tech Manual supposition.

Hmmmm

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Simple,

Dismiss the TechManual,
Toss-it,

And begin anew,


Take care,
GeneralWolfe

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However, with the "aft torp" hypothesis there arises a problem: if there is a tube on that deck then there is not any or very little room for the "shuttle pad" which accoridng to the Tech Manual descends from the main hangar and into that bottom deck which houses additional shuttles. HOWEVER.....I might point out that I don't think we ever ever saw that little round shuttle pad descend into teh lower deck in an episode. We saw it turn 180 degrees to make the shuttle face the doors ready to launch, but the idea that it actually descends into the lower deck may be just Tech Manual supposition.

Hmmmm