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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I for one have never understood the downside of mating two hull elements of seemingly different design philosophy together. After all, that's how the Reliant was created. The harshly angular aft half of NCC-1864 is as alien to the rounded shapes of the saucer as the greeblie-rich aft half of the Yeager is to the Intrepid design philosophy. In neither case do I have the slightest problem or complaint, aesthetically or in the pseudo-engineering sense. The Yeager could easily be to the Voyager what the Reliant was to the Enterprise. She's just barely smaller, seems to have dedicated less of the budget to aesthetics, and carries a different balance of equipment. Like the Reliant, the Yeager increases the number of torpedo launchers while omitting the big deflector dish. Like the Reliant, she seems to have larger and somewhat clumsier impulse engines. And like the Reliant, she seems to have two side-by-side, rectangular-door shuttlebays instead of the central clamshell-door one (and like the Reliant, she never shows the shuttlebays in action, thus failing to prove they are shuttlebays at all). The only minor downside of the Yeager is that her butt resembles a scaled-up Maquis vessel. But altered-scale hull components are standard fare in starship design anyway. And as long as the individual greeblies are at least painted differently, turning "warp grilles" to hull paneling and wise versa, I don't have that much of a problem with it. The Yeager is a beauty compared with most of the stuff Eaves has come up with. I'm treating her as a real ship class, the justful companion to the Intrepids. And stealing the name "Griffin class" for her for the time being... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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