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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sean: [QB] [QUOTE] That's a silly notion because it would mean the Connie Refit is less advanced for having to use the secondary hull as engineering (and it spans much of the secondary hull). [/QUOTE]Well, the refit could have an entirely new reactor design. For all we know, the original Connies could have had a reactor similar to NX-01's. That reactor was relatively small compared to the size of the ship. I see no reason that the original Connie had a reactor of similar configuration, even if it was twice the size it wouldn't take up that much room in the saucer. If I remember correctly, the NX class had a multiple stage warp propulsion system. What if technology continued to build on that system, to the point that even the original Connie design had a multiple stage system, with the reactor in the saucer, but with conduits running along the neck to the other stages in the engineering hull. Perhaps some big redesign of the warp drive that made it more efficient, lead to the warp drive system becoming a more compact design allowing the whole system to be in one place, but the whole package was big enough that it necessitated it being placed in the secondary hull. Maybe these upgrades were based on stuff learned from the developement of the Excelsior. The project probably strarted many years before the ship was launched, and perhaps the whle purpose of the Excelsior was not "transwarp" in the first place. The whole point could have been just to have a redesigned warp core design, and that somehow lead to the possibility of transwarp technology. The basic redesign might have been approved for mass refit into vessels that were able to, like the Constitution class. The Connie could handle the new reactor, but the ship itself couldn't handle the stresses of transwarp speeds, so the reactor's abilities/ power output ( or whatever is necessary for the transition to transwarp speeds) was stunted to make transwarp impossible. The new reactor, whether capable of transwarp or not, was still probably massively more efficient than the Connie's original warp drive system though. The Excelsior was then purpose built with transwarp in mind and the new reactor design was allowed to work to the best of it's ability. Maybe the whole theoretical idea of transwarp was flawed anyway, and wouldn't work even in the proper ship design. But, the new design of the warp core worked, and was used from then on, with future designs evolving from that design instead of the past NX style design. The Excelsior design might have lasted for as long as it did, because of the extra ruggedness built into the design to cope with the stresses of transwarp. I fear that I have over-explained my point again... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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