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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Agreed. I like the overall ship design, but I still don’t understand how creating triply redundant systems for the three sections can possibly make sense. Outer hull, sensors, warp core and nacelles, fuel tanks, crew facilities, would all need to be tripled. I’ve always interpreted the Prometheus to be an in-universe boondoggle, an idea that someone pushed far enough into the testing phase but really didn’t make practical sense. Build it as a one-off prototype. Maybe its primary breakthrough wasn’t the MVAM, but the automation systems allowing minimal crew. Holoemitters in every cabin (foreshadowing La Sirena’s holo-crew, perhaps?), redundant systems everywhere, internally-stowed warp nacelles for the forward section.... What if the Prometheus is a ship at least twice the size/mass of an equivalent starship thanks to its redundant systems? That would make it an oversized Saber rather than a militarized Intrepid (going based on ship mass and volume). Going from Guardian’s volume calcs, a Prometheus is about the same mass and volume as three Sabers. The only thing that I can think of that maybe a larger ship can do better is be faster/more efficient at high warp speeds. On the Prometheus MSD the warp cores for the middle and lower sections line up vertically. Maybe a taller warp core can be more effective and fuel efficient. It was never directly addressed on the show, but the Defiant never got to the extreme speeds that Voyager and Prometheus could, with its very short warp core. This could be the in-universe technical reason, the Defiant is hobbled by a powerful but inefficient warp core because it’s so small. I could see some *possible* uses for a fast ship that could go farther but then split up to be in multiple places when it gets there. Not just for combat, but even for exploring. Having all three sections being warp capable would make it slightly less useless than the Galaxy class’s saucer separation. As for secrecy, all we have to go on is the somewhat unstable EMH Mk.II’s word. I’m sure the ship wasn’t public knowledge, but it probably wasn’t as top secret as he implied. And with automation testing implying a much smaller crew, that would explain why the Romulans could capture it so easily, why only “four” people were qualified to pilot it, and why two holograms could defeat a Romulan Warbird (which was probably already damaged by the other Starfleet ships). If you’re looking for ideas and justification for your Starfleet history, Shik, what if Prometheus started out as a multi-hull testing prototype for automation systems, with possible use for extreme-range scouting and exploring? Then it got appropriated for combat purposes when the Borg and Dominion conflicts developed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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