So far, one of my fav builds. When I started on the whole idea of scaling her up, I thought it could go in two directions - look stupid, or actually work. It's worked, and I'm happy with how she is turning out. Still stuff to do, but no more work will be done on her until at least tomorrow. Managed to sneak a few hours in this morning before everyone got up. My focus today has to be my partner and mum-in-law. A year is not nearly enough time to process everything.
Exactly.
There is a throwaway line in TSFS where Kirk asks about the Grissom firing on them, so the Grissom and the Oberth, by extension, are armed. What with is a good question. Phasers, more than likely. Some sort of probe/torpedo launcher is logical for a science ship. So I personally don't understand how the Grissom was destroyed so easily. Maybe it was just a lucky shot on the gunner's part. But regardless, it was a story plot point to show how little the Klingon's cared about life. Nothing in the film gave us a clue to the size of the Oberth or it's scale next to other Starfleet ships. The BOP was deliberately shown to be as wide as the Enterprise's saucer, much bigger than it would later be portrayed in later films and series, so by extension, the Oberth is bigger. This is my working out BTW, my opinion on the whole thing. The Apollo is the answer to the question of can the Oberth work as a ship. The answer is; scaled up, yes.
There is nothing on the studio model that indicates any type of weapon - BUT, one is seen at the Battle of Wolf359 (DS9 "Emissary") and another was seen to fire phasers at the Battle of Sector 001 (FC). You don't send unarmed ships into that sort of combat. These ships were fighting. Ok, so that's during the TNG era. Could these have been upgraded Oberth's the likes of which we never got to see close up? Possibly.
