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[QUOTE]Originally posted by aridas: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [qb] yes that's the point - I think they just chopped up the S.S. Enterprise (your 'Enterprise Starliner') and made three ships.[/qb][/QUOTE]No. Those are three different ships, seen in profile. They have nothing but a coincidental resemblence to the parts of that starliner, and just when seen from the only views given - the profiles. The one you are using for the starliner's neck is the [i]Frobisher[/i] class, and when seen from the top looks a little like a large version of the Vulcan shuttle, with a rectangular command hull between two long nacelles. The one you are using for the starliner "head" is the [i]Leonardo[/i] class, a smallish catamaran design, with short nacelles attached to a "deck" a'la the [i]Grissom[/i], but with a much smaller "deck" -- just two decks and a bridge module, and a complicated impulse assembly at the stern. Finally, the ship that started the speculation, the [i]Ariadne[/i], is a very different animal indeed. What you are seeing is the side view of a ship that when seen from the front has a long, verrrry narrow look. From the front it looks a little like the [i]Frobisher[/i] does from the side. That "stovepipe" is actually a pair of nacelles that are all front and almost nothing else. The "coils" are arranged vertically instead of horizontally, and the huge "maw-like" front is to maximize this ship's warp speed in areas of space with high matter densities, like nebulae. Its design was developed to fit with Geoff Mandel's explanation (in his first [b]Star Trek Maps[/b]) of the effect of matter density on warp speed. I'm glad this poster is still popular after all these years. It started as a lark, throwing together a number of the designs that had been mentioned, but only vaguely sketched out, for [b]Ships of the Star Fleet[/b], the [b]Federation Reference Series[/b] and the [b]Heavy Cruiser Evolution Plans[/b]. Many fans wanted to know something, [i]ANYTHING[/i] about those ships that had been mentioned only by name, with perhaps the barest further description. So this silhouette chart was the result, to give those fans something to further speculate on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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