CaptainKerakazz GROUP: Members POSTS: 15  |
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Jan. 15 2002, 9:52 pm
i personally think that starfleet should start building fighter ships to help support the large ships when in large battles like wolf ### (whatever the number was)
Who agrees with me?
*note: i’m a star wars fan as well, so i am acustomed to having small fighters alongside the large ships
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Pigmeister GROUP: Members POSTS: 3 |
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Jan. 15 2002, 10:49 pm
it was Wolf 359 and they do procude several fighters such as the valkyrie and longbow classes
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Wolf_359 GROUP: Members POSTS: 37 |
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Jan. 15 2002, 11:03 pm
im wolf_359!!
i remember doing an animation in gr. 7 of the enterprise blowing up a cube and I dedicated it to those lost at the battle of
Wolf 359.
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Timbo_J GROUP: Members POSTS: 37 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 7:34 am
’Sacrifice of Angels’ actually has Sisko on the Defiant giving orders to entire fighter wings.
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cmdelee GROUP: Members POSTS: 1 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 9:17 am
the battle was wolf 359 and in the battle some short range fighters were involved. also the defiant class is in escence a fighter ship
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RaptorMaster GROUP: Members POSTS: 17 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 11:47 am
fyi: Wolf 359
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lakerhawk GROUP: Members POSTS: 11 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 1:46 pm
It is conceivable that in the Era of the Enterprise C and above that targetting computers had been developed to the level that most large ships could take out the smaller ships with ease. The overall output of the Phasers on board the Enterprise D could easily overcome any sheild output created by a ship of the small personal size (which is why the Odyssey was lost in DS9 "Jem Hadar", they simply had never run into ships that small with that sort of sheild output, though the fact the the smaller fighter ships were not used by the Jem Hadar in the Dominion war might indicate that those fighters were equipped with overpowere sheild generaters to aid their suicide attack strategy they used in that encounter"
The Star Wars universe still seems to use manual "aim and shoot" as their primar targetting method, and therefore the smaller more able ships have the advantage of flying faster than most gunners could follow. On the other hand all Worf would have to do is push a few buttons, allow the computer to acquire the targets and wait for Picard to say "Fire!" Poof Poof Poof, Tie fighters all gone.
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Admiral_Dowhen GROUP: Members POSTS: 15 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 3:33 pm
Technically, the Defiant is an escort
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CaptainKerakazz GROUP: Members POSTS: 15 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 7:09 pm
the death star could still take out any ship in starfleet easily
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starkindler GROUP: Members POSTS: 184 |
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Jan. 16 2002, 9:00 pm
in ST we see fighter class ships only in system wide defense....
presumably starfleet relies on the combination of planetary defenses and the massive firepower of full fledged starships.though in the war with the dominion there are plenty of fighter type craft in evidence.
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lakerhawk GROUP: Members POSTS: 11 |
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Jan. 17 2002, 12:40 pm
All too true, but to build a DeathStar in the Star Trek universe would be difficult at best. Most of the major Borg bases and instillations were built in an area where they were obivously technilogically superior to the other species in their Quadrant. In the Alpha Quadrant, the Dominion couldn’t even keep their ship building systems safe from one lousy bird of Prey. The resources needed would make it near impossible to hide such an massive construction effort, even with the help of cloaking device. In Palpatines Empire, the Deat Star’s construction was only possible because Tarkin new that there was no power in the known galaxy who could stop him from completing it.
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Borgdrone55 GROUP: Members POSTS: 6 |
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Jan. 17 2002, 1:39 pm
well iam a starwars fan too and i think that small ships can make a big difference. just look at starwars 6 that small ship that bangs his way into the bridge and that whole ship just blew up into the death star. so yes i think that smaller ships should be introduced into startrek so that the battles heat up even more.
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Suvok GROUP: Members POSTS: 13 |
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Jan. 24 2002, 9:03 pm
No the Death Star could not take out a ST ship, because not only can it not be used against ships, only planetoids, ST ships are far too maneoverable for it. Even an ISD is no match for any decently-sized ST starship, as it carries mere lasers and concussion missiles. In one episode of TNG, the Enterprise encountered primitive space-dwellers still using lasers. They said that even if they fired until their "energy banks ran dry", they couldn’t even knock down the Enterprises’ navigational shields. SW ships are no match for ST ships, even if their turbolasers could hit the ST ships (vitually all of the shots would miss, if they decided to evade them).
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