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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] True but consider that exploration is still a big unknown quantity at this point- nice accomidations would make up for a lack of shore leave and would be an incentive for such a risky mission. Also, larger quarters allows for easier potential doublingup during evac/rescue missions- it's possible that the bulkheads even slide back to provide larger rooms -or the occasional emergency hospital space, sports or onboard training. [/qb][/QUOTE]Judging by what we've seen of Starfleet's entrance exams and psych evaluations I don't think Starfleet has much of a recruitment problem, so "incentive" really isn't an issue. People WANT to be on those ships, it's a privilege. With the early ships especially, space should be at a premium and every kilo of mass and cubic meter of volume should count. One of the things they did actually get right with Ent was the set design. You really got the feeling that everything had a function and there weren't just miles and miles of deserted corridors, serving no day-to-day purpose. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [qb] Aesthetically, this is a very good transition to the 1701. But from a technological sense, I can't go with it as a refit. Two separate deflectors, two separate warp cores? Just build a new ship! It seems to me that this would be a revision to the NX class for newer builds, rather than something they'd bother to refit. I'm thinking of an example like, say, the Challenger's keel is laid but before they go too far they upgrade it to this "NY" class. Because otherwise, all that tech and space taken up by it in the saucer that's dedicated to engineering still goes to waste, and now becomes dead weight being hauled by this extra warp core and secondary hull. Think of the warp supercharger things just sitting there doing nothing. And to put another deflector on the front? Not very original. I can see a widened deflector, one which might even look a little silly poking above and below the hull rim. Might look a little ungainly, but it would be functional, and would make a good transition. The main complaint against the NX (and Enterprise itself) for years was that they basically got everything 'right' on the first try. This would be a case where they didn't. The front of the new hull could be the new landing bay or something else or a shape like the later Daedalus, and it wouldn't be until the next class starship that they moved everything to the "right" place. Nah, in my personal little book this would be the design for something like NX-06 or so. Stick the reactor in the secondary hull, lose some of the extra catamaran hump space, complete the saucer on the back, and expand the deflector dish. Then you have a situation were the Constitution (or some other next class starship) can do away with the impulse catamaran altogether by sticking the impulse engines on the saucer, putting the deflector dish on the nose of the secondary hull and moving the shuttlebay to the secondary hull rear. Nice and easy. [/qb][/QUOTE]As refits go, I'd say this is much less extensive than the Connie refit. That practically WAS a totally new ship! This is more like building an extension on your house. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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