Quote:ISTR the Ent-E using just about everything and the kitchen sink blind-firing at the Scimitar in Nemesis.
I think a better question would be if we've ever seen anything but the dorsal or ventral main bank on the saucer used by ANY starfleet ship...
And, yeah, there are at least two small banks that cover the space between the nacelles on the Galaxy - one to either side of the aft torpedo launcher. And if you get in close enough to a nacelle to hide from both those -and- the ones along the bend in the pylons (which, honestly, is one of exactly two problems I have with the Galaxy's design - -why- do that? It doesn't benefit anyone... And it looks even -worse- on the Ambassador.), then you've brought yourself into the arc of the saucer's ventral bank.
Quote:Probably - but even if they didn't, those have the largest arcs on the entire ship - something like three quarters of all possible angles someone can attack from. Really, all that the other banks are for is to cover the gaps where the nacelles and engineering hull block the main arrays.
Other than that, they're always in position to use the main saucer banks. Probably for the same reason they always meet up with other ships at the same attitude.
Ja, -n
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