Re: Galaxy Class Capability
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:51 pm
Of course S&E facilities are important. On whips that are designed to undertake such missions.
If a ship's function is to guard a system or base from attacking enemy ships, it has no need for large and wasteful laboratory equipment.
As such, labs make perfect sense for an explorer ship. For a ship designed to be in the midst of battle, not so much.
Going back a bit:
[quote"Atek"]No no putting the high explosive stuff close to the surface so that it might explode "away" from the ship is a sensible approach similar to the munition storage on mbt's [/quote]
Your idea has merit, but there's also a problem. The AM pods contain enough power to blast the ship apart even if they were located outside the hull. Thus any breach of them will result in the destruction or crippling of the entire ship. Therefore, it'd be far safer to have them located inside the ship, perhaps with a chute or tube that can fire them out of the ship if they start to overload.
Obviously, the GCS was meant to be a great ship that could do anything and was incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, the fact that they put it in so many dangerous situations that can only be explained in-universe by mass stupidity on behalf of the designers leads us to the conclusion that the ship is incredibly flawed. While not intentional, that's what the writers have nonetheless done to the ship.
If a ship's function is to guard a system or base from attacking enemy ships, it has no need for large and wasteful laboratory equipment.
As such, labs make perfect sense for an explorer ship. For a ship designed to be in the midst of battle, not so much.
Going back a bit:
[quote"Atek"]No no putting the high explosive stuff close to the surface so that it might explode "away" from the ship is a sensible approach similar to the munition storage on mbt's [/quote]
Your idea has merit, but there's also a problem. The AM pods contain enough power to blast the ship apart even if they were located outside the hull. Thus any breach of them will result in the destruction or crippling of the entire ship. Therefore, it'd be far safer to have them located inside the ship, perhaps with a chute or tube that can fire them out of the ship if they start to overload.
Although the hull itself only suffered minor damage, the blast itself probably extended quite a bit back into the ship, as there would have been little to stop the explosive effects once the armoured hull is gone.If the AM storage was the reason for the destruction I do not know but looking at the picture I tend to dismiss this, the damaged area does not seem to reach that far. On the other hand you can never exclude this possibility as secondary effect.
That's the likely cause, I agree.As I stated the AM storage pods are probably designed to explode AWAY from the ship but having a massive hull breach the armoured deck protecting the ship from an AM explosion was probably damaged which lead to the explosion reaching inner decks.....etc.... .
Given that the pods were still able to destroy the ship in that placement, there's no point in placing them there where they can be hit even easier. Ergo, design flaw.It is very unfortunatly but not a design fault.
While that works for an out-of-universe explaination, it doesn't explain it in-universe.Compared to Defiant, Intrepid and yes Sovereign I think the Galaxy is the most well thought out design which suffers more heavy than any other ship from "bad" writing. They obviously though they need to show the audience how badass the villain of the week is by threaten to or blow up the strongest fed ship. Having done this repeadatly it is small wonder that this ship class suffers a rather bad reputation which is truly sad since it is not only the most capable ships but also one of the most beautiful ever designed for trek
Obviously, the GCS was meant to be a great ship that could do anything and was incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, the fact that they put it in so many dangerous situations that can only be explained in-universe by mass stupidity on behalf of the designers leads us to the conclusion that the ship is incredibly flawed. While not intentional, that's what the writers have nonetheless done to the ship.