>This is why, when engaging Star Destroyers, the wise captain of a
>Trek-style vessel keeps his phasers hot, relies on his superior
>maneuverability and shielding (Star Destroyers have notorious
>shield-gap problems), and doesn't waste power arming photon torpedoes.
>
And when engaging a Robotech-style ships stands off and sniggers, phasers having a range 6 times that of a reflex cannon and photon torpedos ten times the range of a phaser. And should he get creative with their flight profiles then even a single launcher could generate a converging (robotech-missile salvo-style) swarm. They have the computing power.

It'd reduce many a storyline to cinders - and thus they won't - but the tech allows it. Remember (not you Mr. Gryphon, Sir) that the story is more important than the finicky technical details.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'