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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Agreed. I always got the impression that the NX class was built with an eye on lifespan upgrades to begin with, and surely they ratcheted up ideas for compatibilty for new technology one Enterprise and her sisters got out there and found much cooler tech to copy or reverse engineer (or whenever the Vulcans got de-analized about their own stuff with humanity). I see no problem with a warp 7 engine requiring a whole new space that the old Engineering hull simply could not accomodate, so they slapped one on using the exisitng infrastructure above the shuttle bay (where the grappler arms needed a solid frame anchor on the ship, etc.) to hold onto. Needing new power transfer conduits from said engine resulted in the new pylons, running through the exisitng catamaran to get to the nacelles. There's a small shuttlebay (or something) in the aft section of the secondary hull, which should concievably hold a shuttlepod and arguably be better to accomodate visitnig shuttles than the smaller footprint pod bay they originally had. IF the original warp 5 engine was still there as a backup, it may have been an intended redundancy for the new engine if it failed on an extended mission and Entrprise needed to limp home. Voyager had one 200 years later (which they never used), so why not this? As it stood, you could argue that a ship the size of this was way too huge for its original crew of 87, where the Constitution primary saucer was not that much larger for its initial crew of 202, which doubled. No reason why that can't happen here... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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