Flare Sci-Fi Forums: Wild specualtions ROMULANS!

my profile | directory login | search | faq | forum home

»	Flare Sci-Fi Forums » Star Trek » Starships & Technology » Wild specualtions ROMULANS!

Author

Topic: Wild specualtions ROMULANS!

AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

posted

look at those 'claws' on the bottom of the warbird - even though its so huge - do you think it could land on planets or asteroids?

------------------
"Remove your hand or I will remove your arm!" - 7 of 9

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Sol System
two dollar pistol
Member # 30

posted

Those don't appear to be claws. On the model I have they look like some sort of vent.

------------------
"Stirs a large iron pot. Casting a spell on Vermont."
--
John Linnell

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Baloo
Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Member # 5

posted

They could also possibly be launchers or emitters or deflectors or sensors. Does anyone have a clue what they could be? Certainly as large as the Warbird is, it couldn't possibly land on anything with an appreciable gravity field. Perhaps a very small moon?

--Baloo

------------------
Welcome to the museum of really dangerous things.
Feel free to pick up and handle any of the displays.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Timo
Moderator
Member # 245

posted

Those ventral things could be plasma torp launchers. After all, they feature three side-by-side holes, as did the bow of the original Romulan ship from TOS...

As for landing capacity, I very much doubt it. But in "The Battle", we hear a Ferengi ship hid in a crater of a nearby moon to ambusth the Stargazer. Was this a D'Kora behemoth or a smaller, so far unseen Ferengi ship type? The giant Ferengi ships /might/ be configured for landing so that they could serve as dirtside marketplaces.

Timo Saloniemi

Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

Baloo
Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Member # 5

posted

That might explain their least aesthetically pleasing aspect: their flat bottoms. The first time I saw a Ferengi ship on TNG I remember thinking: "Wow! Ugh!" in quick succession when I saw just how different they looked. The ship was simultaneously beautiful and ugly, partly because of the flat bottom. If there's a functional reason for that flatness, it makes it easier for me to accept that one jarring feature.

--Baloo

------------------
Welcome to the museum of really dangerous things.
Feel free to pick up and handle any of the displays.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

First of Two
Better than you
Member # 16

posted

I thought those claw things were the Romulan censors.

"We don't like your script! It's got too much naughtiness! We're here to shred it!"

------------------
'In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to Liberty; he is always in allegiance to the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own." ---- Thomas Jefferson

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Bernd
Guy from Old Europe
Member # 6

posted

I'm not quite sure, but I think the Warbirds were firing from these locations in "The Die is Cast". Of course, this doesn't exclude that there is a landing gear as well. If we refer to the design history of the ship, it was vertical at first and therefore definitely not suited to land.

------------------
"When diplomacy fails, there's only one alternative - violence. Force must be applied without apology. It's the Starfleet way."
A somewhat different Janeway in VOY: "Living Witness"
Ex Astris Scientia

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Michael Dracon
aka: NightWing or Altair
Member # 4

posted

If it were to be landing legs, don't you think the top wing would be subjected to a lot of stress when the Warbird is on the ground??

------------------
Presenting the NX-59650. It can slice! It can dice! It can seperate into THREE parts!!
Now available with THREE FULL warpcores!
But wait! Buy now, and get a free number upgrade to NX-74913!

To order, call: 0800-PROMETHEUS

Registered: Mar 1999 | IP: Logged

Dax
Paradox
Member # 191

posted

The Warbird is simply WAY too big to be able to land on a planet.

------------------
"Forgive me if I don't share your euphoria!" (Weyoun to Dukat, Tears of the Prophets)
Dax's Ships of STAR TREK

Registered: Jul 1999 | IP: Logged

AndrewR
Resident Nut-cache
Member # 44

posted

yeah, but as we said above - what about Asteroids or small moons... sorta akin to eagle eries!?!

They need something to purchase on.

------------------
"Remove your hand or I will remove your arm!" - 7 of 9