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- I have my orders. – Sitek said. With a brief nod, he turned to his tactical officer. The photon torpedo erupted from the saucer of the Entente.- It's bound for the city!- Nussbaum shouted, the image of the dreadnought replaced by that of the incoming antimatter warhead on the viewscreen. Acting on instinct, Metlesits jumped to the helms console.
- In its way, Lieutenant!- he howled. Jiménez pushed the impulse enginee control lever, his eyes wide. The bluish-white flame of the photon torpedo collided with the saucer of the Polaris, shattering the monotanium panels, sending the crew flying on all decks.
Klaxons were weeping on the bridge. Metlesits clambered to his feet and helped Jiménez back to his chair.
- Major damage to Decks five to seven, we're losing atmosphere, shields are inoperable. – White Eagle's voice came from the intercom, intermixed with statical creaks.
- Get me that green-blooded bastard! – Metlesits said, turning to Heimann. The comm officer worked silently, establishing the link between the Polaris and the Entente.
- What are you doing, you idiot? – the Captain howled as Sitek's visage appeared on the screen.
- It was illogical for you to position yourselves into the line of fire. – the Vulcan said, not even an eyebrow twitching.
- If that torpedo hit the asteroid, thousands would be dead now!
- What you speak is not the truth. The asteroid was evacuated.
- You're more stupid than you look like, you green-blooded freak! Modify your sensors to filter out hexanium echoes. The asteroid is virtually made of the stuff, damping all other signals!
- Being the Captain of the tactically superior vessel, I order you to stand down or face the consequences of your insubordination.
- You're mad!- Metlesits shouted – There are people down there! If you want to destroy the asteroid, you have to get past us first!
- I have my orders to conduct the bombardment of this asteroid, as according to the general ordnance test plan. Your rebellious behaviour shall not stand in my way.
- Allright, you stupid xeno! Carry out your mission like the drone your bloody race is! But I'll make sure you'll go down with this asteroid!
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hmm... since when are photon-torpedos blue? i thought photons are red and quantumtorpedos are blue.
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TOS photon torpedoes were blue.
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just like phasers changed its colors, right?
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It's still doing the right thing, though. The story is what makes it for me.
This action is up there with Kirk & co. taking the Enterprise from Spacedock in ST III. Admiral Morrow & Capt. Styles neither knew -- nor would have cared -- about the loyalty Spock inspired in his comrades. So it was "screw you guys, we're outta here!"
Blocking photons with your own hull -- ouch. Everyone aboard must have needed dental work afterwards!
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Better the hull than the helpless civilians on the asteroid. Besides, there is a battle protocol on the Polaris: all un-needed personnel are required to move to the centre section of the saucer, the most protected area of the ship.
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Very wise, that procedure.
Recently did a session with a pair of Romulan Warbirds using my RPG group's Nebula as a punch bag... It did not end well for the Romulans once the surface away team repaired a derelict surface-to-space rail gun system.
Can you say, "shoot the green parrot"?
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The TNG era Polaris has a "Spec Ops Team" for such procedures. It has experts from all fields.
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I'm sure they earn their pay & then some... Oh right, I forgot. The TNG era doesn't believe in money!
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Say that for Starfleet (or just for Jean Cheapguy Picard), FF people are in for the loot
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There was a scene in Alien Resurrection where the pirate leader & the marine general are talking, and the general hands over a stack of banknotes. He says it was very hard getting hold of 'real' money.
The pirate leader agrees. The only people who use money now are those who want to keep their transactions off the computer records...
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Yeah, cash is an endangered specias...
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"To Boldly Go and Make a Stand."
...i wish I could make pictures as spectacular as this...
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Thank you very much!
It's not spectacular, though, there are lots and lots of peopel who would to this stuff a thousand times better.
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I know a certain Vulcan that's been a very bad boy!
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He's gonna get his ass kicked
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Awesome pic Dave, I hope the Polaris taught that Vulcan not to mess with the First Fleet
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Thank you!
We managed to out-manouver the lumpy Dreadnought, blasted out their torpedo launchers and forward-facing weapons. After that, the xeno was more cooperative
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You're welcome, and good tactics, take out their weapon systems first, then their engines
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Beautiful picture, I love your Polaris and TOS images.
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Thank you very much!
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Sitek has made the classic mistake of making an enemy of the audience. Not as dumb as wearing a red shirt and not having a name but i don't think he's going to make admiral anytime soon...
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Actually, after making him more cooperative, he helped us bringing down some Section 31 folks.
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Absolutely excellent work on this one and the sharpness of it is just wow!
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Thank you very much!
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love the scene, and the writing,... i'm taking a wild guess that the captain of the polaris has a "problem" with alien races? (lol) (:
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I'm the Captain
And yeah, f**k xenoes, hail Terra!
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lol,... oh man, you'd hate my ship(:
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Too much aliens aboard?
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..... 2 humans, 4 klingons, 1 ferengi, one romulan and one new species,...(lol)(:
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Oh my... Looks like the anthitesis of the First fleet spirit
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yeah,... mortuary services would pretty much be the LAST fleet(lol) (:
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wouldn't it have been smarter to shoot it out of the stars than get in the way of it. I know that the tactical sensors weren't as sophisticated as 24th century vessels but still it should have been a more viable option than recklessly endangering your ship and crew in a gamble that could have easily destroyed you and then where would the colony be other than atoms and space dust. not one skipper comes to mind that would make such a tactical mistake in such a lopsided battle. but it is an awesome shot though nice effects and lighting looks like something they would use for a book cover to catch interest!
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The Vulcan launched the torpedo, we had no point-defence tech, I had to make this move.
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isn't that standard equipment for every starship, even if first fleet didn't receive that upgrade due to political reasoning you would think that you'd be able to build your own even with your limited resources. but hey do what you gotta do.
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Sorry, but I don't recall seeing point-defence tech in canon, even by the time of Nemesis. The only mention of such systems I've seen is in the Armada PC game...
Because my RP group would sure as hell fit point-defence tech for their Nebula-class ship.
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well we have AEGIS now which can track and destroy 30+ targets (sorry don't know the actual max targets it can track wouldn't divulge it if I did) Then by the time of Polaris and even Nemesis in theory that capability should be multiplied god I know, but the point I'm trying to make is even if they aren't celebrated and called upon in the books/movies doesn't mean they aren't there. The standard sensor package of any starship can probably track up to 150 targets if set to do so.
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Ah, your tactical research section is a bit more sensible than the collection my RPG group have to deal with.
These are the guys who are thinking that 'flying robots' are the best way to deal with the Dominion threat... Our Science Officer said "What about M-5?" and they laughed at him -- okay...
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yeah I think I would have also. I served in the navy so I have a clue about modern warfare gadgets and software so i can go about applying it to Star Trek and enhancing it to what a starship should be capable of by the 24th century. Hell I even came up with an idea as to utilize the theory of sonar to detecting cloaked ships. Though I'm not sure how well it would work.
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Hmm. The whole stumbling block I see is that targeting a ship -- and hitting it continuously -- happens all the time in Trek. The shields are meant to block the damage, but they fail at the Speed of Plot.
Okay, it's all geared to be exciting and dramatic. Fine. But shouldn't there be SOME effort to counteract an enemy ship's targeting systems? Not just come up with "hyper-regenerative quantum shielding" or some such nonsense?
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electronic warfare such as "radar jamming" is a powerful tool besides didn;t they do that a few times in voyager?
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They did... and then they conveniently forgot to do it again in subsequent episodes. Gotta love that "Voyager Reset Switch" the writers were so fond of using...
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