Thats how all starfleet ships work. The primary power source for the ship is the warp core. The only things that don't draw power from the warp core are the fusion engines that power the impulse thrusters (plus probably emergency batteries or something)
We still need like 10 phasers to get 175% coverage, or 12 to get 200% Personally I would rather go for 6 phasers, 2 pointing forward top and bottom, and 1 pointing rear top and bottom
By math we should be able to get 200% coverage with only 8 phasers. You do a forward facing ring of 6 that covers everything but the aft arc and then stick 2 in the aft arc.
Movies say otherwise. In WoK, Enty's warp core is offline and it can still fire Phasers and launch torps at Reliant, Enty E in Insurrection ejects and detonates its warp core and still fires Phasers afterwards. In Nemesis, Enty E spends an entire protracted battle firing off Phasers and literally hundreds of torpedoes after its Warp Core was disabled at the very start.
You aren't accounting for the fact that you need phasers on the top and the bottom of the ship. also you only need 6 on one side to get 360° coverage on the top, then mirror that to the bottom (12 total) to get 100% coverage with 2 phasers in any direction
Which tv series?
We gave it a high sprint so that it would get to SCIENCE! sooner. This isn't a combat oriented ship, it's a science vessel that can do Convoy escort or cover the flanks of a combat squadron. It definitely isn't intended to rush to every fight and roll face.
In Star Trek the Motion Picture they mention that the phasers are tied directly to the warp core allowing for massively more power. I believe in Balance of Terror they had reactors for the phasers specifically, but may be misremembering.
No, I accounted for that.
Keep in mind it's the (to us) far future and about half a decade at least since the phaser upgrade from TMP. They'll have definitely worked out the kinks based upon feedback from the Enterprise crew, especially Scotty who was the engineer overseeing the refit (iirc), and not having some sort of capacitor for them for the cases where the warp corre is knocked out or absent is a pretty big kink.
WoK predates TNG by a number of years. Insurrection and Nenemis follow directly past TNG afaik. I do not agree with your assertions the movies are alt timelines.
Uh TMP, Wok and Nemesis are not in a different high-tech timeline from TOS, TNG or Voy. They are all in the same Prime Timeline. The JJ movies are in a separate high-tech action flick timeline known as the Kelvin timeline.
You do however have, by nature of them being movies, an incentive for high powered and spectacular combat scenes even when the regular logic of the shows would suggest the ships should be more or less helpless.
True, but they also establish back-up power systems, batteries and makeshift solar collectors should be available to all vessels.
I suppose that's fair. I assume that prior to the start of Nemesis Enty E had a full supply of torpedo munitions and near the conclusion of the setpiece Scimitar battle a crew member says something along the lines of "We're out of torpedoes sir." I cross reference the inventory screens shown in Undiscovered Country that imply Enty A, as a Constitution II hull, carries approximately 96 torpedoes and she's tiny compared to a Sovereign hull while carrying just 2 fore mounted launchers. By the time of Nemesis, Enty E's been refitted with 4 or 5 standard launchers and 1 Quantum launcher with each probably having its own separate magazine. So, hundreds is entirely plausible imo.
