How many torpedoes were fired?

[Timo]

How could we tell? We never saw one up close.

And even if we did, those Starfleet torpedo casings have never been considered to be expensive, rare or difficult to manufacture (they are used as wrappings for corpses!). It's the warheads inside that are the sought-for commodity, as per DS9 "Tribunal".

Which makes sense: shells are shells, but backstage doubletalk from the TNG Tech Manual onwards has been that the antimatter warhead features a microscopic 3D matrix of forcefields to bring the matter and antimatter into contact as efficiently as possible. Firing one big lump into another wouldn't create much of an explosion, beyond the initial one that flung the lumps apart again. But creating the hyper-intricate forcefields just might require the precision of a dedicated, very special replicator. Just putting all the atoms in the right places wouldn't suffice, because, uh, well, there's subspace involved. Or something.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[The Dominion]

This line's quickly forgotten

No it's not.

He obviously meant the Voyager writing staff, not the fans. Reading comprehension much?

As I remember, the torpedoes surpassed 38 during "Night" when the crew were firing the torpedoes willy nilly - the very first episode of the Voyager era when Braga took full control hmm - -

They didn't fire that many torpedoes though. A lot of the torpedoes being fired were from the alien ship, Voyager only fired one in the beginning, and a handful at the end.

 

[You_Will_Fail]

They didn't fire that many torpedoes though. A lot of the torpedoes being fired were from the alien ship, Voyager only fired one in the beginning, and a handful at the end.

Voyager had been fairly conservative in their torpedo use up until that point but in "Night" they were firing full spreads. It just really stood out.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I don't have an issue with 93 torpedoes being explicitly fired, and I don't have an issue with the fact that they didn't run out. I do, however, have have issue with the fact that they never made any effort to use them sparingly.

There was almost no hint that they were low on resources, especially resources such as torpedoes, and the hints got less and less with later seasons. The only thing I remember is that they were conserving energy not unlike the US government does its budget cuts – they avoided using replicators, but used the warp engines and transporters aplenty. Neelix repeatedly had kitchen troubles with his makeshift 19+21 century cooking devices, but not even once someone had to stay back on the ship to conserve energy from transports... Did they have a landing party of two even once?

Hell, they even landed the entire ship!

No creepy cat and mouse chase episodes because Voyager has to hide due to the lack of arsenal. No landing parties of two on scary desolate planets. No conservation policies, new battle tactics, tension. No nothing.