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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Stingray: [QB] [i]You're comparing apples and oranges. We're talking about starship designs of the future. But, if we're comparing modern vehicles with past vehicles, take a look at the 1940's Jeep Willy, and the 2000 Jeep Wranglers. If someone were to watch "Band of Brothers" on HBO and scream "OH MY GOD! THOSE UNCREATIVE BASTARDS STOLE THE WRANGLER DESIGN! THAT DESIGN DOESN'T FIT ON THE AUTOMOBILE SCALE FOR THE 1940'S IT'S COMPLETELY OUT OF PLACE!" [/i] That seems a less fitting analogy than mine to support our respective points. I'm sorry, Jeff but it just does. Besides which, if you were to plot the evolution of Jeeps along a similar graph with Jeep's specific environment/functional requirements/etc., you would be able to see a similar evolution. And the Willy, your Wrangler, my Grand Cherokee, and even that new Liberty thing would have their spot. However, If the Liberty were to show up before the Willy, then eyebrows would raise. [i]If anything, Enterprise's design (do we have a class-name?) makes much more sense that Earth's first military starship (I'm assuming thats what Enterprise essentially is) would be a single-hull design. It's easier to build, easier to design, and we don't know what if any restrictions the designers might have placed on them by the warp engine, gravity, dampening fields, etcetra. [/i] This is the best defense of the NX-01 I have yet seen. But it seems that Starfleet's shipbuilding philosophy is to have smaller, easier constructed ships as auxiliaries (Mirandas/Nebs/Akiras), and to have the ships-of-the-line type vessels to be of the larger and the saucer/neck/secondary hull config. [i]So you don't like the Enterprise design because it doesn't fit your preconceived rationale. [/i] Uh...yeah. Everything here is our opinion. I thought I was past the point in fifth grade where I had to start every sentence with, "My opinion is..." [i](1) I am going to make a system based on all available data points. (2) Enterprise is an available data point. Therefore (4) I will not include Enterprise because it's hard?[/i] Good logic. If this were real science, then I would be forced to concur. However, we are in fact talking about a television show which affords me the luxury of plugging my ears about anything I want. :) Basically Ryan, I created my explanation. I can stop at any point I want. Let me now restate what I posted in another tread. I like the Akiraprize when taken out of context with every other ship seen in Star Trek. But it is unoriginal, uncreative, and a red herring for the sake of 'coolness'. For all the reasons I've already stated. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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