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Another feather in the ST:E sympathizer's hats, eh "No, this item on the ship that is identical to the Akira class is a sensor node, not a weapons pod! That's 360 digrees diferant!!!!
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Actually Nimmie, I was simply trying to establish whether there was sufficient cubage within the pod for a warp core.
BTW: Although I am impressed with the NX-01 interior sets, I am reserving opinion of the show until it has aired at least 8 episodes.
As recent screenings of TOS and TOS movies have painfully pointed out, the show was fairly campy - and had some truly awful acting/directing. (and I speak as a long-time fan). It truly has been overshadowed/overtaken by later avatars (TNG being the best IMHO).
This latest avatar may indeed be the best yet. Or it may suck my starboard one. Only time will tell.
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I *SO* have to disagree with you there. As people might remember me going on about it a few months ago... here in Australia, we had on a cable channel a season 1 TOS marathon... over 3 days...
I watched nearly all of it... I had seen most of these episodes before - and thought they were... OK. I had seen them here and there. Watching the whole season together over such a short period, I got out of the whole 'dated' or 'sixties' feeling that I seemed to have had when watching an episode here and there, and I at last could truely APPRECIATE and ENJOY these episodes. They were TRUELY amazing. I feel I might have gotten a feel as to what it must have been like to live during the 60's and watching these shows as they first appeared!
I was truely captivated by every one of these episodes... Truly great stuff.
Then tonight, I get out my widescreen- Wrath of Kahn. There is NO way, you can bag this movie. AT ALL!
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Given the current size calculations for the ship, the pod looks like it's about twenty to twenty-five meters long.
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True, it does present a big target that, with one good hit, could instantly destroy the ship. However, looking the oblique view, it looks as if the pod hides behind the saucer. It looks like it's only a good target from above, below, and behind. From the sides the nacelle pylons seem to be sheilding it, and from the front the saucer is sheilding it. And we all know the ships in Star Trek only fire at the fronts and sides of ships.
But, in all seriousness, I guess the pod being an effective target depends on the weaponry that is used in the series. Weak weapons may not have a huge disastrous effect on an unsheilded target. On a shielded target, it may do nothing more weaken the shield.s
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Another problem with having the engine room in the pod is that the pylons may not be thick enough to fit a turbolift... and it would be silly to have some sort of crawlspace leading to the most vital room. Imagine evacutations!
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Ah, I forgot about the pylons leading to the pod. You may be right about them being too small for a turbolift to slide through, but surely there'd be room for something bigger than a crawlspace. Maybe there a small stairwell/passageway that leads to the engine room if in fact it is in the aft pod?
Who knows. Maybe they will try and suggest a turbolift can fit through the pylon. After all, we're still talking about the possibility of a turbolift squeezing through the Oberth's pylons.
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Slides? I hope that they are not the recycled ones from crashed airplanes.
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Are the pod-to-catamaran braces really that thin? In the oblique shot they look like they could be a deck thick. The tilt's also not that severe... under 20 degrees, I'd say...
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