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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Photon torpedoes
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 13:10:25 EDT
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> 
> More on photon torpedoes:  When the Enterprise met up with Nomad in the
> "Changeling" episode, Nomad pummelled the ship with some kind of energy
> weapon with the equivalent of 90 (if memory serves) photon torpedoes per.
> They survived a couple hits.  When they finally got a single photon torpedo
> shot off and Nomad "absorbed" it, they were *amazed*.  Why?  They just
> managed to absorb 180 photon torpedoes...
> -- 
> 
> ||  Gregory M. Paris                                                        ||

Nomad absorbed the energy rather than have it do damage.  The Enterprise
was getting blown apart while Nomad was absorbing the energy for his own
use.

As an aside, in Star Fleet Battles, not even the most powerful ship
can withstand 90 photon torpedoes, let alone 180.  Are you sure it was
90 torpedoes to one Nomad burst?  The torpeodes in the show always seemed
to be more powerful than the Star Fleet Battles torpedoes.

--Kevin Chu
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