No - a wave motion cannon would require wave motion engines; Wave Fusion® is a hybrid technology combining wave-motion principles with advanced thermonuclear fusion. It's more stable than straight wave motion power, but doesn't have quite the same output and can't be used to power a wave motion cannon.

With quite a lot of structural jiggery-pokery, it would be possible to mount a phase-transit cannon, but experience with Omega-equipped carriers (such as Concordia) has shown fairly conclusively that the disruption to flight deck operations involved in maneuvering to fire such a weapon for effect isn't worth the trouble. It's much simpler and more tactically flexible to just add a separate Omega-equipped vessel to the carrier battle group (an Argo-class heavy cruiser, for instance). Or bring along some Reflex torpedoes, if you absolutely must haul around the capacity to destroy a small moon in one go aboard the carrier herself.

Anyway, hang as many weapons as you want on her superstructure, a carrier's hardest-hitting, longest-reaching fist is always going to be her air wing. Those three Judicator squadrons and one Astrofortress squadron may take slightly longer to destroy an enemy ship than a blast from a wave motion gun, but it'll be just as dead when they're through, and they don't leave the ship all but dead in space while they're gone.

Or that's the theory, anyway.

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