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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Hmm... The new exteriors make me wonder if it wouldn't pay off to tweak the interiors a bit. It's interesting how the container section of the ship is basically the same length as the enclosed cargo handling section aft of the engineering spaces, and both are of slightly different diameter from the engineering section forward of them. What would the ship look like [i]without[/i] the enclosed area, with two lengths of container section there instead? Or with two enclosed sections? Perhaps the ship could fly with either one or two sections, and sometimes with none at all... Creating a separation line just aft of the computer cores would require some minor tweaks on the interior - truncation of the lateral corridors and creation of a centerline access to the cargo sections, mainly. But there could also be a separation line aft of the current upper transporter - and if that transporter were brought one deck down, things emerging from there could then be directly shoved to the central corridor of whichever cargo section type was carried. That would mean having a shorter enclosed cargo section than container section, but the former could then easily be stretched to be the same length as the latter, possibly with improved aesthetics. Modularity isn't always good, but in this case I think it would make some sense to have a variant that only hauls those small containers; perhaps another that only has a big bulk tank for a cargo section; and just a few individual ships that have all this multimission versatility. IMHO, this ship is lacking in humility - it's too survivable and too capable to really be a Star Trek ship, especially a damsel-in-distress kind of Star Trek ship! :p Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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