ok ive read on various sites that people try and determine the age of a vesel using what type escape pods they use as evidence. well i think that is a pretty fudged up method personally. my theory is this=
>most ships have major refits after so many years. is it not possible and credible that when a ship has a refit it is given the latest most advanced escape pods?
this would explain why the rhode island has newer escape pods to the equinox. it also explains why akira and steamrunner class vvessels have the same pods as the sovereign even though they are older designs. its just that they have been refitted with the more advanced pods.
just what i think.
Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :
Generally, Trek ships don't show much signs of external refitting. This is of course because it's way too expensive to modify the photographic models of the ships (or even the modern CGI models) to reflect anything so subtle as a minor upgrade or an individual modification.
But in theory, it would be perfectly reasonable to install different kinds of lifepods on an entire ship class (explaining why the seemingly modern triangular pods are present in all the seemingly old Steamrunners and Akiras) or to select few members of a ship class (explaining the Nova class thing).
I just would like to see much more of this kind of upgrading. Perhaps externally visible lifepods on an Excelsior, or a new kind of a pod on a Miranda. Or strip phasers on any of the older classes.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Installing new lifepods, especially ones of different shapes, would require substantial modifications to the hull recesses that accomindates them (relative to the number of pods). Frankly, I don't how it'd be worth it, especially if the difference between different generations of lifepods are minor and superficial.
Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :
A escape pod is an escape pod. The all do the same thing, no matter if the're on the E-D or E-E or Voyager or the Defiant.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
For once, BWC makes sense.
I still want to smack him about, however.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Is it just me or are the square things on the E-D and Voyager escape pod covers? Perhaps on the E-E there are no covers, just the pods? Seems to me when Voyager launched it's escape pods they were the same triangular shape. Maybe they're all the same shape, but some ships have covers?
Posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov (Member # 742) on :
E-E's are triangular, what we see are the escape pods. TNGTM said the things we see on the hull of E-D are not the escape pods, but they are small boxes fitting exactly into the escape pod bays. Defiant had somehow spheric escape pods (I think 8-sided), sitting below several larger hatches. Voyager had the same pods as Defiant below the hatches we saw on E-D. So the question is: Why do you put a round escape pod into a rectangular hatch?
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
quote:TNGTM said the things we see on the hull of E-D are not the escape pods, but they are small boxes fitting exactly into the escape pod bays.
If they are boxes that fit into the bays, then where are the pods themselves?
I assume you mean they are just the escape pod hatches themselves and not the actual pods, which would actually be placed in the bays and covered by the hatches a la Voyager. Funny I always thought they were just the pods uncovered a la E-E. And I believe the TNGTM statement is in regard to when the ship is first launched and not yet outfitted that the boxes are there to fill in the void before the pods can be docked in during the outfitting.
Posted by Fedaykin Supastar (Member # 704) on :
hmm...isnt there a diagram which expicitly shows how the E-D's escape pods look like and shaped (as a cube)[i forget what page]
assuming u take the TNGTM as (almost)-canon information?
Buzz
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
There's no reason why we can't believe TNGTM about the lifepods being square.
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