Trek refire rates

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-09-10 06:40pm

What is the torp firing rate for Trek ships? Preferably Romulan and Cardie ships, but I will take and try to apply Feddie launchers.

I'm smacking down an idiot.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-09-10 07:25pm

Beam or Torp?

I was watching the TDiC footage earlier and a Cardy ship fires its main beam weappon twice inside a second.

A romulan ship fired 2*2 torps within the same timeframe.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-10 08:54pm

Torp he said Darkling Jeesh

Seems to be dependant on class, otherwise E-D seems to be able to quad fire them once every 1.6 seconds or so and the E-C(Whatever the hell Picard flys around the first three seasons) is the same but slightly slower, four every two seconds

The Defiant Class is faster of course but I don't know how *MUCH faster

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-09-10 08:56pm

So he did, he also said preferably Romulan or Cardy

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E-C(Whatever the hell Picard flys around the first three seasons)

????? I have no idea what you mean at all.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-10 09:09pm

What is the name or classification of the Enterprise that Captian Picard flew around for the first few Seasons of TNG?

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-09-10 09:13pm

The Ent-D was all 7 season of Tng and the first Tng film then the Ent-E for the other films.

The Ent-D was a Galaxy class (this class is the that has a warp core that goes up with a tap).

The Ent-E is a Sovereign Class (Sort of a heavy battleship (in ST terms)).

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-09-10 09:21pm

My mistake then

No E-C?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-09-10 09:24pm

The Enterprise-C was only featured in one episode, Yesterday's Enterprise, one of my favorite episodes of TNG.

Picard also commanded the USS Stargazer before being assigned to the Enterprise-D.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-09-10 09:30pm

The Ent-C (Ambassador Class) was lost at the battle of Narenda 3 whilst under the command of Capt Rachel Garrett.

Narenda 3 was a klingon outpost and was under attack by Romulans, the loss of a Federation Starship in defense of a klingon outpost lead to Klingon-Federation alliance.

The ship was seen during the episode Yesterdays Enterprise when a temporal rift (no dont run its actually a good episode) brings it to the future thus resulting in the timeline altering into one where the UFP was fighting a losing battle against the Klingon empire however the time line was restored when the ship returned to the past getting destroyed as it did in the original timeline.

/Trek History mode off

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-09-10 11:09pm

Thank you. And just to confirm, it was a fleet of 50 ships. correct?

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2002-09-10 11:21pm

20 Ships.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-09-10 11:41pm

thank you again. I am now about to make a little punk my bitch. Your help was deeply appreciated.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-09-11 01:52am

Pretty high from some episode in TNG where Tasha Yar (?) gets kidnapped to fight the rulers wife.

Either the photorp launcher was loaded with a buch of torps at one time or it is able to recycle at a high rate.

Sorry I don't have the episode name to reference.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-09-11 01:54am

Also check out the first episode where the E runs into Q. Near the beggining of the episode you will see where the aft torp launcher is firing.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-09-11 06:54am

The beam rate of borg cube seems to be twice/once per second, however they rotate the weapon emplacement they use, so it may be longer

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2002-09-12 01:01am

"Survivors" is a good example of a frontal salvo... the E-D salvos off 6 torpedoes in 1 or 2 seconds, and fires phasers four times in four seconds.

They then "commence rapid fire with all weapons on full" (which, to me implies that this is meant to be a continuous assault which lasts for a significant amount of time; your mileage may vary) which results in another 6 torpedoes, multiple phaser strikes (with different origin points, indicating that the E-D probably started firing more than just the ventral saucer phaser) before the Husnock knock out their weapons control.

I've also heard that "Half A Life" is a good example of refire rates, but I've not personally seen that episode yet.[/i]

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-09-13 01:59pm

There are multiple examples of a medium sized series of refires rates for the Galaxy class. "Survivors" shows the capability to fire multiple phasers and torpedoes in a short time span. "Best of Both Worlds" also shows this capability with 6 phaser blasts and 4 torpedoes in just 2 seconds. "Half a Life" shows the capability to refire large numbers of torpedoes in 10-20 seconds. "Sacrafice Angles" shows the capability to fire multiple phaser beams from one array. "Sacrafice Angles" also gives the refire rate of a Miranda's torpedo launcher at 2 torpedoes, reload 4 seconds, 2 torpedoes. Thats an aproximate refire rate of 1 torpedo a second using both launchers together. In the episode in which the Defiant was stollen by Tom Riker, it showed the capability to fire 4 torpedoes in a second, then 1 second later another pair. That indicates the magazine in each launcher holds 2 torpedoes, then the reload process for a single torpedo takes a second. That means the Defiant can Alpha strike with 4 torpedoes in one second, then sustain 2 torpedoes per second afterwards. There are multiple examples in voyager IIRC with multiple phaser shots and even one of every array firing at once.

In short, Will Riker can kiss my ass for firing once at the BOP and getting the Flagship of the Federation destroyed.