Ideas for new classes of starships

[Lt. Staplic]

If you READ I say that they developed the QT as part of the program.

[Mark]

But why? Romulans have plasma torpedeo tech. Why copy something just for the sake of copying it? It's just that I don't understand.

[Captain Seafort]

So what if they've got plasma torps? It's already been speculated that QTs may have shaped-charge warheads while PTs are omnidirectional. Plasma torps may fill a third niche, which would make them more effective in some areas but less so in others. The more strings you have to your bow the better.

[shran]

i read something of a Federatopn battleship. Would that indicate that this is a write-up consistent with the USS Daystrom RP?

[Lt. Staplic]

yes, I left that kind of ominous because then we could fit it in with the Paladin Class, or in my universe I also created a battle ship for the Federation, it was one of the first ones i posted on here.

[Mikey]

But why? Romulans have plasma torpedeo tech. Why copy something just for the sake of copying it? It's just that I don't understand.

Have we seen a plasma torpedo since TOS? I thought their torps in TNG+ were PT's. According to TOS: "Balance of Terror," there were a lot of drawbacks in using plasma torps as S2S weapons.

[Lt. Staplic]

I always thought Plasma torps were infurior also.

[Reliant121]

I imagine plasma torpedoes are probably more effective as bombardment weaponry; its shown to have a higher yield than PT's but a big measure, maybe bigger than QT's just slow and unresponsive.

[Mikey]

Yeah, Kirk & Co. were able to just back off from one until it had little yield left.

[Reliant121]

Even then the Enterprise (NCC-1701) took a bloody good walloping.

[Mikey]

It did a bit, but what I'm getting at is that the ep exposed the weakness inherent in plasma torpedoes.

[Reliant121]

Yes, as was mentioned, they are like lethargic slugs in space. Hence bombardment weapons, not anti-ship/tracking weapons.

[Tsukiyumi]

Everyone remember the ODP's now.

The Cardassians, at least, still used something called plasma torpedoes as of late DS9. I don't think we ever heard it stated what sort of torps the TNG Romulans used.

[Captain Seafort]

The Romulans used plasma torps too - it was mentioned that they were stockpiling them in their hospital on one of Bajor's moons in the season 7 opening arc.

The TOS plasma torps were certainly powerful - two or three of them destroyed one of the Feds' asteroid outposts - but they could be easily outmanoeuvred, and could be detonated by phaser fire, unlike most torps.

[bob]

the [need a name] class


weapons:
(rain drop thingies) Disruptors
dots- torps
lines phaser arcs (borrowed from federation)

complement:
torpedoes:
plasma (x 400)
burst fire (x 100)*
shuttles:
scorpion shuttles (x 10)
description:
built after romulans join the federation due to actions of Q having fun by bringing back the dominion battle force.
thus new tech (phaser arcs) were added as an experemental project. also the romulans duplicated the reman cloaking device and one ship of this class was the first to carry it on board. the test run of that ship proved somewhat unusefull because they could not produce the power needed to fire weapons, how ever shields were able to be kept at half power but with internal and external communications at one third percent power. Also the cloak was undetectable and could allow warp engine startup for immediate warp after decloaking

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*new tech
burst fire torpedoes-specialized torpedo bundles that when a certain distance from their target, or by the tactical officer's command split and detonate when they hit the target.