I don't think there's any conclusive evidence, but it looks like the intention was for the torpedoes to be fired from the "cheeks".
Many thanks,
Tomalak!
I guess that in my little personal universelet, I'll go on believing that the microtorp launcher on the
Danubes was underfloor, while the central module held the full-torp drop bays suggested by the Tech Manual. At least those shots don't firmly establish the stub wing launchers...
Don't the attack fighters in Sacrifice of Angels battle fire torpedoes? Data's scoutship in Insurrection seemed to have a pair on launchers either side of the cockpit which could easily have been microtorpedo launchers.
The attack fighters fire pairs of glowing balls, at most two pairs per craft. Those could be micro or mini, or they could be full-sized torps dropped from ventral bays of some sort. In the introductory appearance, the Maquis version of that craft fired five torps from a ventral'ish, central'ish location, or at least the last two seemed to come from there, perhaps supporting the ventral bay hypothesis.
Then again, the models had a previously poorly documented bow aperture that might have been a torp launcher or perhaps a stealthy (that is, non-glowing) nav deflector. If the former, the caliber of the torps involved remains a mystery.
Data's scout should have had a torpedo capacity, yes - it fired torps at Rua'fo's command ship early on. And those side features seem like the only credible locations for launchers, and they don't seem to accommodate full-size torps. So that's another piece of support for centimeters-wide microtorps.
Timo Saloniemi
