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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I figure that the third nacelle was added to balance the extra mass and volume of the BFG and all the other stuff they slapped on there. We know from various episodes that a warp field is somewhat interconnected on the shape of the hull, and breaking the silhouette by adding so much stuff, and all the extra mass (maybe the BFG is just really, really heavy) would require a third nacelle to create a powerful enough warp field to balance everything and keep the Enterprise-D as fit and fast as she once was. We have yet to see a Federation starship larger than the E-D in the local time frame (The E-J is probably much larger, but there's a 500+ year difference there), so perhaps Starfleet is/was at its upper limit for size with the GCS? What if they've since gone to smaller starships since then not because of political or policy changes, but simply because it gets really tough to build anything much larger AND move it at any appreciable speed? The closest GCS to reference - the Challenger from VOY "Timeless" - happens about five years prior to "All Good Things...", relatively speaking, and she's a stock GCS, without even the nacelle-mounted phasers seen on the Venture. This suggests that the Enterprise-D in that time frame is a limited or unique variant, or part of a recent fleetwide upgrade. Or, like the fourth funnel on the Titanic, the third nacelle doesn't actually DO anything and is mostly for show... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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