What were the weapons of the enterprise D
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IIRC, it was 12 type 10 phaser banks, and 3 photon torpedo launchers, including the saucer/stardrive in seperated flight mode.
not sure you'd class the anti-matter spread as an official weapon?
Also, the forward torpedo bay could be converted into an additional phaser bank ;-)
Some nitpicking to clarify what was shown and what only suggested:
The count of emitters is a matter of some confusion. When the two halves of the ship were joined together, we saw two long strips on the saucer (dorsal and ventral), two short ones at the aft part of the neck upper head, one strip across the belly, one strip per engine pylon, and two short strips above and two below the fantail, for a total of eleven. A twelvth one would be revealed on the neck head at separation. "Type 10" was specified in the episode "Conundrum", either to denote all these strips, or then just the heaviest of them, assuming they came in different "calibers".
The bow and stern torpedo launchers were seen in action and were built into the model, and at least the bow one could launch bursts of five torps at once. The launcher supposedly in the saucer, revealed at separation, was never seen in action nor was built into the model in any visible way.
The "torpedo phaser" thing from episode "Darmok" is not the only time phaser beams sprouted from a location that did not allow for them. In "Best of Both Worlds", beams also impossibly emerged from the forward edges of the engine pylons. We might pretend they were aimed a little differently and "really" emerged from the sides of the pylons, though - and while we're at it, we might pretend that LaForge loaded a special portable phaser emitter in the torpedo tube deliberately to surprise the Children of Tama.
Timo Saloniemi
The count of emitters is a matter of some confusion. When the two halves of the ship were joined together, we saw two long strips on the saucer (dorsal and ventral), two short ones at the aft part of the neck upper head, one strip across the belly, one strip per engine pylon, and two short strips above and two below the fantail, for a total of eleven. A twelvth one would be revealed on the neck head at separation. "Type 10" was specified in the episode "Conundrum", either to denote all these strips, or then just the heaviest of them, assuming they came in different "calibers".
The bow and stern torpedo launchers were seen in action and were built into the model, and at least the bow one could launch bursts of five torps at once. The launcher supposedly in the saucer, revealed at separation, was never seen in action nor was built into the model in any visible way.
The "torpedo phaser" thing from episode "Darmok" is not the only time phaser beams sprouted from a location that did not allow for them. In "Best of Both Worlds", beams also impossibly emerged from the forward edges of the engine pylons. We might pretend they were aimed a little differently and "really" emerged from the sides of the pylons, though - and while we're at it, we might pretend that LaForge loaded a special portable phaser emitter in the torpedo tube deliberately to surprise the Children of Tama.
Timo Saloniemi
Here is the CANON armament of the 1701-D...
- 12 Type-X phaser banks
- 3 photon torpedo launchers
That is for the 1701-D specifically.
During the Dominion War, the Galaxy-Class ships were fitted with 2 additional phaser banks, bringing the total to 14.
That is CANON. Anything else is speculative.
- 12 Type-X phaser banks
- 3 photon torpedo launchers
That is for the 1701-D specifically.
During the Dominion War, the Galaxy-Class ships were fitted with 2 additional phaser banks, bringing the total to 14.
That is CANON. Anything else is speculative.
Don't forget the wave motion gun they used the Borg in BOBW!
From memory alpha:
Galaxy-class ships, in the docked configuration, generally exhibited 12* phaser arrays. Two large arrays encircled the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the command module. The other nine arrays were on the engineering module: two upper aft arrays inward of the saucer impulse engines, one on the ventral surface of the engineering section, two lateral arrays on the warp nacelle pylons, and two aft arrays each on the dorsal and ventral pylon surfaces approximate to the aft photon torpedo launcher. An additional array, on the 'cobra head' of the engineering module, was only exposed and usable when the ship was separated into its two components.
*Corrected.
For once, Memory Alpha has it right. The third torpedo launcher is not canon, nor is the concept that the additional phaser strips atop the nacelles of USS Venture would have been a refit extended to a large number of the Galaxies (indeed, no other onscreen Galaxy ever sported those, unless one counts the actual reason for the nacelle strips, the alt-future E-D modification seen "All Good Things..").
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