Subject: Re: [fanfic] Can the Defiant take on the Enterpris?
From: Thomas Kinnen
Date: 10/28/1995, 12:28 PM
To: fanfic@andrew.cais.com

On Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Charles C. Liu wrote:

      Brett and I have been having a disscussion about the capablities of
the Defiant and the Enterprise. We were wondering which ship would win if
they fought it out.

As always that depends on the situation....

        I'm for the Enterprise because although it is not designed to be a
warship, it is bigger and "in my opinion" has more firepower. I think the
designers at StarFleet Command meant the GALAXY-class starship to be a 
SHIP-OF-THE-LINE. And I think they meant the Defiant to be a Cruiser.

I would say the defiant in most cases for a number of reasons (also a few
specific things will make the difference).

First off, the Defiant commander must be someone who will not hesitate to
use the full capitabilities and a full crew who whould follow his/her orders
without question.  Why, because the Federation sense of fair play would give
the opponent to much advantage.  Here are the defferent ways and reasions I
see the defient as a better choice.

The best way for the Defiant to take out a Galaxy Class starship is to use
standard Romulan taticts.  Decloak from behind the starship (why, because
then your only main worry is their rear phonton launcher), let loose with a
volloy of Quantom torpoeds, and the follow with the full phaser array.  The
Defiant needs to pick good targets also.  None of this "Only target their
engine" stuff.  Nail the bridge or blow one of the warp nacells.  Bye-bye
Galaxy class ship.

Also take into account the Defiant is a war ship no matter what Starfleet
calls it.  It has very heavy armor.  It took a pounding from a Klingon cruser
with no shields to beam out the Carasidian goverment in the season opener of
DS9.  Yes, I know they made the Klingon distruptors at 50% with the funky 
tractor beam, but still that is a bit of a beating.   It is way over
powered (They talked about this when they firsted inturoduced the Defient)
so it has the power to keep the shields up in heavy combat.  It is also more
manuaveriable (sp) then a Galaxy class starship.  Look at the episode where
the Romulan and Carasidian fleet tried to wipe out the Founderes.  The
Defiant could fly loops around a G-Class ship.  and finaly lok then Tom
Riker took the Defian into combat with the Kelvin class crusers.  It held
it's one and won on a one-on-one basis.

    
        BTW, if you want to know how this question started from it started
as a disscussion about how many Jem'Hadar ships it would take to destory
ethier ship. 

If any ship catches another with it's shields down (with the excepion of the
defient because of it's armor and even then if the traget is perfect maybe
not) it only takes one well placed photon or quantom torpedo. 

                                 Thomas Kinnen
                            Ft Myers, Florida * USA
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