Galaxy Class

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:23 pm

I could think of a way of using saucer seperation similar to what was seen in Generations, but in a more offensive way:

Activate selfdestruct for the Stardrive-section and evacuate its crew into the saucer.
Decouple and bring everything in a radius of medium range out of there.
After 30 seconds the stardrive will explode, causing heavy damage.
The saucer will be very vulnerable in that time and after donating 50 supply-units and so on you could order a new stardrive. Although, since Galaxy isn't buildable, re-ordering a new stardrive doesn't make much sense  :pinch:

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:26 pm

30 seconds is a while, maybye it could seperate, and one half explode, and then around that area a blinding light, and the other half escapes, like all power if transfered, and the other half takes its weapons offline, and transfers that power to engines for 10 seconds and gets away quickly

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:26 pm

like saucer seperation, and all power goes to stardrive which escapes, while the other ships auto target the saucer or something so stardrive gets away, but idk, i just like seperation

So the stardrive runs away while the saucer with all the civillians on board sacrifice themselves to cover its retreat?  That's a twist!

Remind me never to serve under your command, Ray.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:46 pm

Well....it IS only logical...you've got the more powerful warp engines with the stardrive...all the torpedo launchers, a few phasers, the warp core...it might be a twist....but then how many of us would be a CIVILIAN on a galaxy?

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:49 pm

Well....it IS only logical...you've got the more powerful warp engines with the stardrive...all the torpedo launchers, a few phasers, the warp core...it might be a twist....but then how many of us would be a CIVILIAN on a galaxy?

Logical is not 'civilians sacrifice themselves to save the military', the military are the ones supposed to buy time... the Stardive is called the Battle section for a reason.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 9:56 pm

Hmmm acording to the TNG technical manual the saucer section has a rear firing torpedo launcher....soo...Saucer seperates and as its fleeing fires a torpedo at the battle section detonating its warpcore and creating a massive explosion.....that sounds truly fed like except for one thing....

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:04 pm

The after torpedo launcher is to keep away possible pursuing foes, in the case the stardrive can't distrack them or is already lost.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:05 pm

i think it would have made more sense to have the launcher in a place where it can be used even when whole, its just silly to hide it away. what if the main aft launcher was killed? all the galaxy torps were in a couple places.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:08 pm

I don't know, but the launcher is actually placed above the battle bridge when integrated.
The only practical use for it I can imagine is what I described before.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:08 pm

Starfleet fixed that flaw by building the Akira, the medium sized starship with fifteen million billion torpedo launchers.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:10 pm

i think it would have made more sense to have the launcher in a place where it can be used even when whole, its just silly to hide it away. what if the main aft launcher was killed? all the galaxy torps were in a couple places.

The same reason it was given a phaser inside the seperation plane; it wasn't supposed to use it unless seperated. You could ask the same about why they didn't put a second front launcher.

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:16 pm

Starfleet fixed that flaw by building the Akira, the medium sized starship with fifteen million billion torpedo launchers.

No, they fixed it with the Olympic-Class, having absolutely nothing but enough sickbays for the stardrive-crews 

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:21 pm

having a torp covered is pointles, even if there's no power to use it when whole, what if the power systems are 100% fine but the main torp launcher itself gets hit, one can switch power to the working launcher and continue KERBLAMing stuff. but if the launcher is covered u cant

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:23 pm

well its war, so there wouldnt be alot of civilians on board, more like the enterprise in yesterdays enterprise, so then auto destruct, the saucer run away in the stardrive, after everyone in the saucer goes to stardrive and shuttle and captains yacht and escape pods and such

posted on January 24th, 2010, 10:26 pm

having a torp covered is pointles, even if there's no power to use it when whole, what if the power systems are 100% fine but the main torp launcher itself gets hit, one can switch power to the working launcher and continue KERBLAMing stuff. but if the launcher is covered u cant

It covers retreat instead of being used as a replacement because it isn't a warship, the covered location is the only place the saucer could have an aft launcher. If the Galaxy was designed primarily to fight, it likely would have to torpedo's aligned to reflect that.