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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] All very good ideas. Perhaps the role of the centrally firing horizontal plasma stream is not so much to excite the coils but to serve as a "return loop" of sorts? Since the plasma that hits the coils must travel on their surface instead of inside them, perhaps some leaks away, and is collected in a centrally mounted forcefield "drainpipe" which feeds it back to the overall plasma loop? I'd still be happier if the horizontal stream had an active role in transmitting energy, though. The only cases where we see the grilles of TNG-era ships black are when the ship is completely shut down, crippled, or changing its dilithium crystals as in the beginning of "Skin of Evil" (although a "hot swap" later becomes a possibility). Even quayside ships (like the E-D at DS9) usually keep their grilles lit. The Defiant seems to be turned off when docked, though. I'd assume that the blue glow is directly related to presence of plasma in the nacelles but not to other status of the nacelles (idle, sublight, warp). When powered down, the ship purges the plasma loops completely so the grilles go black. When on idle, plasma is present in the loop but not firing at the coils, just flowing through the nacelle horizontally - enough to cause the blue glow. When active, plasma begins to fire at the coils, too. Ultimately, the warp flash results. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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