It's a different kind of energy weapon emanating from that section. Not as powerful, but effective and without any additional shielding requirements.
favorite KLINGON Starship design?
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It's a different kind of energy weapon emanating from that section. Not as powerful, but effective and without any additional shielding requirements.
It's an older Klingon design so I would expect it to face difficulties against newer enemy ships. We also the Federation deploy Excelsior and Miranda class ships in the Dominion War and they suffered a lot too.
Is it REALLY that old? that's like the Royal Navy going in to battle with HMS Victory.
It's unlikely to matter so much with starships. As long as the spaceframe is still solid you just keep refitting and swapping out power generators, weapons, sensors and what have you as the ship's life progresses. Particularly with the way starships are used in battle throughout ST (it changes very little). Most of the big changes in ship design in the post-sail age IRL were either increasing displacement and armament size, or dramatically altered combat methodology (carriers vs battleships).
Since ST ships have stayed run-and-gun combatants from ENT through DS9 and VOY, and ships in the size range of D7's / K'tingas are still current, there is no reason for them not to be around.
Know the way there is that dermal regenerator thing for skin? Maybe there is something similar for structural metal that can repair fatigue to a ship's hull without dismantling it... Or maybe starships just fatigue very slowly.
Since ST ships have stayed run-and-gun combatants from ENT through DS9 and VOY, and ships in the size range of D7's / K'tingas are still current, there is no reason for them not to be around.
Know the way there is that dermal regenerator thing for skin? Maybe there is something similar for structural metal that can repair fatigue to a ship's hull without dismantling it... Or maybe starships just fatigue very slowly.
I've always liked the D7 and kintinga and also the vorcha class attack cruiser in TNG pity they never saw a 24th century D7 updated version that would have been cool. I never liked the Klingon ships from enterprise IMO .!!!!
Are the K'tinga and the D-7 the exact same class of ship? I could have sworn that the K'tinga was newer and smaller than the D-7.
Oh, my favorite Klingon class is the Vorcha.
^It's the (TMP-style) K'tinga that shows up in the first-season Enterprise episode "Unexpected". That same CG previously showed up in Voyager's "Homeward", where Tuvok calls it "A D7 class cruiser". So the D7 and K'tinga are one and the same. Or, at least, slight variations of the same design.
An earlier variation of the D7/K'tinga was designed for "Unexpected" but wasn't used, It had different nacelles and some scaffolding along the wings and neck.
An earlier variation of the D7/K'tinga was designed for "Unexpected" but wasn't used, It had different nacelles and some scaffolding along the wings and neck.
I'd attribute that to the same sort of mistake that had Riker reading "NCC-1305-E" off the hull of the USS Yamato in "Where Silence has a Lease". ymmv.
See, I much prefer NCC-1305-E for the Yamato. Who says Enterprise is the only ship awesome enough to get letters? There may have been an ultra-famous-but-never-talked-about USS Yamato NCC-1305 around Kirk's time.
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