Basically we're making a smaller, shorter-legged Galaxy-class.[X] 5 Type-9 Phaser Strips (Prototype]
[X] Rapid-Fire Photon Launchers (Prototype)
Point defense is what we have escort ships for. Raw firepower is the domain of the capital ship.
Dracinifel described Galaxies in that battle of DS9 as "They bullied that Cardassian cruiser out of existence, flew through furball, happy as clams, killing everything before them, turned around and flew back, still killing, without any visible damage. Maybe their captain was Andorians who wanted to show Klingons how it's done?"With the bitch-slap firepower of the BIG phaser array to deal with potential conflict with Klingon or Romulan capital ships.
But would a klingon respect any other kind?Albeit the Irony of naming a heavy capital Ambassador is not lost on me.
Probably not. But for the Council once they actually see what a Monster we cooked up for them may have some stomach ulcers. Remember they are mostly peaceniks for the next 30 or so years.
Just mount another deflector dish and repurpose it into a wave motion gun. Problem solved.
The Galaxies had at least three phaser strips, there was one running port to starboard on the ventral side of the secondary hull. There was, IIRC, another on the secondary hull where it met the saucer for use during separated operations, but naturally it was covered by the saucer most of the time.Clearly, the less phasers on a ship, the more powerful they are. We're going from many individual phaser banks, to fewer interconnected phaser arrays, to a smaller number of larger phaser strips, and then the Galaxy class in the future has a mere two phaser rings. Somehow, that number needs to go down to one singular phaser... sphere? Phaser web? Phaser dish?![]()