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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Oh, good grief. I can't believe I'm about to let myself get suckered into this . . . The Akira is an older design. As evidence, I point out the following: 1. Saucer Shape . . . later-model starships (Sovereign, Intrepid, Prometheus (NCC-7XXXX), et cetera) have been using longer, thinner primary hulls, as opposed to the shorter, wider hulls common to the Galaxy family of ships (New Orleans, Nebula, et cetera). Since non-round saucers have only come (in general circumstances) sometime after the Ambassador Class, we may comfortably place the Akira after the Ambassador, but before the Intrepid, on the basis of primary hull shape. (The hull shape of the NX Class is an accident . . . they stuck the circle parts on the end of the inner rectangle, not realizing that this was cool for warp effects (re: the TNGTM). I have declared it thusly!) 2. Those Funk-Ass nacelles . . . though an intriguing design, the nacelles to not appear new. Instead, they look like some sort of crackhead first-gen attempt at a Galaxy nacelle, with the nice curvy non-circular ramscoop, but with everything turned sideways and looking like the lovechild of a Galaxy nacelle and a Constitution nacelle. (Or, alternately, the love-child of a Galaxy nacelle and a Cheyenne (marker-pen) nacelle.) 3. The Deflector . . . looks like it was stripped off of an Excelsior. Plain old blue glowing deflector dishes without red glowy thingies or rust-colored opaque thingies are old-school. 4. The Phasers . . . the phasers are the old Galaxy family Type X, not the new Sovereign-esque thinner, more corrugated strips. However, the phaser strips are longer than those found on the Ambassador Class, and so again we may assume it is older than one, younger than another. 5. And, finally, the registry. ****** Counter-indications: 1. The bridge . . . looks like a Sovereign-style from the outside, but different bridge types on similar craft (Miranda and Soyuz), and know that bridge modules can be swapped out or different between ships, which under certain circumstances could result in external differences in appearance. 2. Lifeboats . . . look like the newer Sovereign style. This alone proves jack. For all we know, they refit old Akiras with the newer ones to correct a design flaw, the something-something-somethinger having caused the something-something-somethinger to behave improperly in regards to the lifeboat something-something-somethingers. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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