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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] OK, I've been wondering about the Akira class starships. 1. Where would the Engineering Section/Warp Core be? Would it be centrally located in the "saucer" section, or tucked away in one of the twin hulls? If it's in the saucer, then wouldn't the conduits delivering the warp plasma from the core to the nacells be extremely long? 2. The pod on top. This is assumed to be a weapons pod (at least I assume it is). Couldn't it be something else? Also, if this is a weapons pod or photon torpedo launcher, how do the torpedoes get delivered to the pod? Are they stored there? Are there crew stationed in the pod? 3. Using Replicator/Holodeck/Borg technology, couldn't the pod be reconfigured by the starship crew in order to carry out various tasks? It could be used as a weapons pod, then reconfigured as a sensor pod, then reconfigured as a communications pod, etc... It would seem Starfleet could easily develope this kind of technology. Replicators seem able to recreate and recycle just about anything. Barclay easily reconfigured the holodeck in "The Nth Degree" into a computer several times more powerful than the Enterprise had (and even reconfigured a new propulsion system to boot) and with all the data gathered from the Borg, surely some of that technology could be put to use. Herb [/QB][/QUOTE]
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