An Ambassador Class Starship?

[James Wright]

Does the Ambassador class starship have a phaser strip on the bottom of the engineering hull just behind the main deflecter dish, like the E-D?

JDW

 

[Trekker4747]

Nope

 

[Timo]

That is, the strip wasn't built into the model, despite original intentions, and wasn't refitted into the model when it received a facelift on some other details.

But we only saw that the non-facelifted variant (the E-C) lacked the ventral strip. The facelifted version (the Zhukov) was never shown from an angle that would reveal the lack of a ventral phaser. So perhaps we might want to argue that the originally intended strip was finally fitted onto the class during that refit, or implemented on the second batch, or whatever.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Trekker4747]

Timo said:
That is, the strip wasn't built into the model, despite original intentions, and wasn't refitted into the model when it received a facelift on some other details.

But we only saw that the non-facelifted variant (the E-C) lacked the ventral strip. The facelifted version (the Zhukov) was never shown from an angle that would reveal the lack of a ventral phaser. So perhaps we might want to argue that the originally intended strip was finally fitted onto the class during that refit, or implemented on the second batch, or whatever.

Timo Saloniemi

Looking around, some diagrams of both versions of the Ambassador show the strip there too, but what's on screen is the final word, so...

 

[137th Gebirg]

According to this quite comprehensive essay on Ambassador-class Variants from Ex Astra, there is no ventral phaser strip on the model.

 

[Timo]

...But the point is that the models aren't "real". Only what we see of them on screen is.

And we don't see a lack of a ventral strip on the Zhukov. (Any more than we see the existence of a ventral mounting point for the motion control arm on the Enterprise-A!)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Forbin]

That's interesting, 'cause the Ertl model kit HAS one! hmm.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'm with Timo on this one. For all we know, the Zhukov has four phaser strips, two of the Defiant's prototype phaser cannons, and a fuzzy dice hanging off the bottom.

The ERTL model also embelishes the design with two forward torpedo tubes where they OUGHT to be. The actual model has NO tubes whatsoever.

Mark

 

[James Wright]

Without the ventral phaser strip how well defeneded are the Ambassador Class starships?

JDW

 

[Vanyel]

JDW said:
Without the ventral phaser strip how well defeneded are the Ambassador Class starships?

JDW

Why would it need phaser strips? Maybe it uses the same kind of phaser banks like the previous model starships used.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

No such things on the model, though we know from multiple examples that phasers can be mounted just about anywhere on a starship's hull without actual emission points. This is in turn due to poor research on the part of the VFX guys, but still...

Mark