look at those 'claws' on the bottom of the warbird - even though its so huge - do you think it could land on planets or asteroids?
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Those don't appear to be claws. On the model I have they look like some sort of vent.
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
They could also possibly be launchers or emitters or deflectors or sensors. Does anyone have a clue what they could be? Certainly as large as the Warbird is, it couldn't possibly land on anything with an appreciable gravity field. Perhaps a very small moon?
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Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Those ventral things could be plasma torp launchers. After all, they feature three side-by-side holes, as did the bow of the original Romulan ship from TOS...
As for landing capacity, I very much doubt it. But in "The Battle", we hear a Ferengi ship hid in a crater of a nearby moon to ambusth the Stargazer. Was this a D'Kora behemoth or a smaller, so far unseen Ferengi ship type? The giant Ferengi ships /might/ be configured for landing so that they could serve as dirtside marketplaces.
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
That might explain their least aesthetically pleasing aspect: their flat bottoms. The first time I saw a Ferengi ship on TNG I remember thinking: "Wow! Ugh!" in quick succession when I saw just how different they looked. The ship was simultaneously beautiful and ugly, partly because of the flat bottom. If there's a functional reason for that flatness, it makes it easier for me to accept that one jarring feature.
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
I thought those claw things were the Romulan censors.
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
I'm not quite sure, but I think the Warbirds were firing from these locations in "The Die is Cast". Of course, this doesn't exclude that there is a landing gear as well. If we refer to the design history of the ship, it was vertical at first and therefore definitely not suited to land.
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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :
If it were to be landing legs, don't you think the top wing would be subjected to a lot of stress when the Warbird is on the ground??
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Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
The Warbird is simply WAY too big to be able to land on a planet.
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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
yeah, but as we said above - what about Asteroids or small moons... sorta akin to eagle eries!?!
They need something to purchase on.
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
The question is what it would be useful for to land the Warbird on a moon. I don't have an answer.
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