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>SHIPS DO NOT HAVE ATRIUMS. Thank you.
>
>(What the HELL were they thinking? "Hey, let's have a distributed
>superstructure in the hopes that they'll shoot THROUGH THE MIDDLE?" I
>got four words for them in that one: "Mr. Data, target engines."
>Picard and/or Riker used to say that in fights. and in a
>D'Dereidex, hell, they got twice as much possible room to
>smite. Besides, cloaking that thing must be a bitch and
>three-quarters, way more surface area to make nonvisible.)

There you go being rational again! Of course all ships carry lots of non-essential space that is difficult to defend! What do you think future war is like? You don't think they'll be professional do you? Of course all the backup systems will be so strong, and so indestructible and easy to repair that you can add lots of stupid stuff (say like a Holodec) and still be a mean-lean-fighting machine.

And targeting engines? Well, that's just not sporting!

t.
Sherman: War is hell
Starfleet: War is hell if you don't have a jacuzzi filled with Betazoids!

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