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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] About those torps: the original model has a fancy recess, almost like an air intake, on the top surface just aft of the forward dome and ahead of the aft one. (It's very similar to, say, the recess on the bow of the Voyager, the one that ends in the Mess Hall windows.) You could nicely fit four or more torp launchers there, side by side, and have them fire forward and slightly up to clear the forward dome. Much like many 1970s-2000s subs had side-mounted, slightly angled torpedo tubes so that they didn't have to fire through the bow sonar dome. That's a big ship, BTW! I have always been thinking of her as being to scale with the Constitution saucer. But you have closely spaced rows of windows everywhere, as closely spaced as those on the saucer rim. It just looks funny when one knows that the rim windows don't correspond to actual decks on the Constitutions themselves. Also, the original model had a big hollow space below the aft dome, so that the aft hull "spine" could slide in there - the telescoping action was apparently the big gimmick that was going to set the Excelsior apart from the Constitutions, in addition to the variable-geometry pylons. If you don't want to believe in a telescoping hull, you could still leave the box below the aft dome hollow, and call it the shuttlebay... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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