>LAST EDITED ON Nov-28-01 AT
>03:12 PM (EST)
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>>should have been able to destroy the Klingons in one pass. In one
>>properly executed overhead pass the Enterprise would have been able to
>>clobber the Bird of Prey with six phaser emitters,
>>saucer-section ventral(ventral was down, right?) emitter,
>>engineering-section frontal-ventral emitter, the two Warpnacelle pylon
>>emitters and the two aft-ventral emitters, and could have hosed it
>>with torpedoes at the beginning and at the end of the passing.
>
>Well, there is the fact that they stuffed a photorp into main
>engineering.
>That'll put a crimp in anybody's style.
>On a less facetious vein, that torp probably took out the fore-vent
>array and the fore torpedo tubes.

Okay, those wapons may have been disabled or destroyed but there should still be enogh firepower left kick some klingon ass.

And in the movie the Enterprise just turned it's back to the klingons! Even with that hole in the engineering-section's hull that's a pretty dumb move, because this way Riker practically _INVITES_ the klingons to shoot up the Enterprise's engines!

I just saw a ST:TNG episode where the Enterprise hosed a Borg ship with everything it's got nad I just can't believe that that very same Enterprise is perfoming so poorly against an out-of-date Bird of Prey.

At least this gave them an excuse to build a new Enterprise.

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