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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] There's a precedent or two to real-world kitbashing; lots of butt-ugly designs were created for example for the Normandy landings, ships that could barely sail but still had a definite role in that specific assault. Some were prepared quite hastily by converting surplus ships or revitalizing shipwrecks. For example, the "Constitution variant" with low-slung nacelles and type 10 phasers could have been a special "gun barge" intended to haul a special type 10 cannon to DS9 and blast through the station's shields. She would not have been capable of anything else, and would have been scrapped after the assault. The Curry could have been a similar single-mission 'bash - an "escort carrier" made out of an Excelsior shipwreck to provide those Peregrines with some sort of long-range propulsion and nothing else (except a Peregrine would be a very tight fit into those Excelsioresque shuttlebays!). After the war, it would be scrapyards for her. I fail to invent any good justification for the three-nacelled Excelsior or the LN-64-engined Intrepid, though. The latter could be an early prototype ship drafted to service with the addition of engines that were never designed for the ship but were sufficiently similar to the intended ones to be workable - but the former is a nightmare, requiring the designing of a whole new warp field shape just to get it warpborne. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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