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There is actually ONE occasion where that I remember, the Enterprise launching torpedoes at an object apparently sooo far away that it couldnt be seen, and the torpedoes vanished in the distance and exploded many seconds later, and hit (to no effect because it was a Q-thing but it still hit)? Oooh....

I suppose it was predictable that the SpaceBattles Trekkie answer to this question was "you can't trust the visuals; the ranges are condensed in every SciFi series except Star Wars". :shock: Yes, they actually specifically excluded Star Wars in their argument; Star Wars is WYSIWYG, but shi...

The targeting range of Federation ships seems to be a source of mystery. In "Conundrum", Worf claimed that the Enterprise-D's phasers have a range of 300,000 km. In "The Wounded", Data reports an engagement between the USS Phoenix and a Cardassian warship at a range of 300,000 km...