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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] Wasn't there a thread about this last year, or maybe the year before. My suggestion to explain away things like the Yeager was something like... It is a one-off ship, brought into service during the Dominion Wars... It was probably a moth-balled test ship for Intrepid saucers, in a lead up to the Intrepid Class production. Maybe one way they did it - instead of having whole new ships like the Galaxy Class lineage - is to gamma-weld older "parts" lying around. Or these "parts" are actually for the purpose of being able to be used on various new ship designs/hull designs - without the need to develop and ENTIRE new ship each time... i.e. they want to just deal with the saucer section and it's warp-field geometry performance. They were in desparate need for ships - and this is a WORKING ship - so they used it. The Elkins and the Yeager might be 'sister ships'... maybe each testing a different secondary hull/nacelle configuration. Maybe there is another one out there somewhere that has an Intrepid Saucer section and a wierd-arsed engineering section that looks closer in shape to the final look of the Intrepid Class. Maybe the Yeager was a test-bed for using articulating nacelles... on a new/larger saucer section. (Before that it might have only been the "Maquis Raider" type ships that had that ability to articulate their 'wings'. This also leads to the possibility that they had already designed a class of ship with the Intrepid Saucer in it's final design, but along came Geordie's and those alien's revelation about the damaging effects of Warp on the fabric of space... and they had to go back to the drawing-board and they tested the idea of variable warp-field geometry. As a stop-gap they too the final saucer and nacelle designs and used an existing ship that had articulating pylons - the Marquis Raider type ship - and tested it out. It worked... they mothballed the ship and started producing the Voyager versions... What episode had Geordie talking about the Intrepid - it was season 7... maybe the "Intrepid" originally had the non-moving nacelles... and it was out and about before Voyager came along/was finished. It had to go back and be refitted. (Only if the Intrepid mention occured before "Force of Nature" that is. :) Andrew [/QB][/QUOTE]
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