quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: And for Voyager.
Kill me if you must, Flareites - I like the Intrepid class design.
I think it's main problem was that the nacelles were too small. I mean I understand they were trying to say that technology had improved to a point where they didn't need as large nacelles as the Galaxy Class... but it just aesthetically made Voyager a little 'front-heavy'.
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True, it did look a little like a duck with a big face and eeny little legs. That's what made the landing capability so...silly. They could have at least mentioned tractor beams or something holding the saucer up. (Actually they'd need that to hold the whole ship up; those little struts surely couldn't.)
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Actually, the 'swinging nacelles' of the Voyager only bugged me in that they ALWAYS swung to 'warp position', and were in that same 'warp position' regardless of what warp they were going.
Since impulse doesn't CARE about warp dynamics, wouldn't it have made more sense to JUST design the ship with the warp engines ALREADY in the 'warp position' and forget the swinging feature?
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I had a two-foot model of Voyager once that I built shoddily; the nacelles on the model could be swung down as well. I don't know whether that was the original intention and it just never got shown, or what.
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As for the landing thing, surely you are away of a centre of gravity. Take your two-foot model of Voyager and balance it on your fingers in the area where the landing struts are. It will balance perfectly.
Also, in-universe, the mass of the saucer is offset by the mass of the warp coils (which are said to be the densest part of the ship).
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They're all way on the back of the engineering hull...the thing is front-heavy. Unless the warp coils are *really* dense Empty plastic models don't really extrapolate to full ships with stuff in them, I mean.
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quote:Originally posted by Vanguard: Actually, the nacelles would REVOLVE, not ROTATE. They're outside the axis, you see...
But, I admit, I did get the strangest image of the Voyager's nacells spinning along the yaw there for a bit.
Don't start talking about Intrepids and rotating nacelles or we'll have Escallum in here moaning about Nebula's and trying to talk about using pens to make fully rotating nacelles.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: They're all way on the back of the engineering hull...the thing is front-heavy. Unless the warp coils are *really* dense Empty plastic models don't really extrapolate to full ships with stuff in them, I mean.
Yes, that's the point. Really, really dense.
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quote:Originally posted by Vanguard: Actually, the nacelles would REVOLVE, not ROTATE. They're outside the axis, you see...
But, I admit, I did get the strangest image of the Voyager's nacells spinning along the yaw there for a bit.
Don't start talking about Intrepids and rotating nacelles or we'll have Escallum in here moaning about Nebula's and trying to talk about using pens to make fully rotating nacelles.
With traffic cones...I need a good laugh. I think I'll re-read that thread.
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