Shouldn't the part bolded in orange be read as follows:4. You scaled the asteroid wrong. First, torpedo glow doesn't increase after the torpedo exits the launcher. Second, you scaled the torpedo when it was at the greatest distance from the launch point, and you can't know how big the asteroid is from that.
The scaling is correct, within a reasonable margin of error. First, torpedo glow does indeed increase . . . it's a shield after all, and we can't assume it's raised to full strength the nanosecond the torpedo exits the tube.
In regards to the notion that I should've scaled the torpedo off of an earlier pic, let's take a look, using the "Hutt" methodology:
The pic I used for scaling:
The one they think I should have used:
The frame of the asteroid and torpedo used for scaling
A comparison image:
In the last pic above, there are two small squares and an itty-bitty square. The top-most two are, from the left, the frame they think I should have used, and the frame I did in fact use to scale the torpedo. Both have been reduced in size so that all the torpedoes are all the same size. Below the left frame, you can see a perspective-free schematic drawing of the 130-meter-wide Voyager, roughly (and conservatively) scaled to the navigational deflector of the scene above it. The width of the ship is 22 pixels . . . the length of the asteroid is (still) 78 pixels. Though the margin for error is greater using this method (especially given the small number of pixels we're dealing with), we still come up with a figure of 460 meters, 70 meters more than my figure. It would be even larger with a less conservatively-scaled schematic view. And, if torpedoes do not in fact seem to increase in size, and if we used the itty-bitty frame on the right for scaling, we'd end up with an asteroid a kilometer in length . . . and remember, the firepower would scale with the volume. Thus, we could quite easily end up beyond the 500 megaton "Skin of Evil"[TNG] territory, up into the 1.4 gigaton range.
So, what do you say we leave the scaling alone, and keep the conservative 100 megaton figure?
"In the last pic above, there are two small squares and an itty-bitty square. The top-most two are, from the left, the frame I used to scale the torpedo, and the frame they think I should have used. "
Besides, aren't you interested in updating that page with higher quality shots?