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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Hey, pIn'a'Sov and Black Knight, I'm beginning to think you have something there. The ship certainly does look like it was specifically designed to be "retractable" - the supposed shuttlebay is just a cavity to retract the aft hull ridge into (that photo rendering is pretty convincing). Probably one of the gimmicks that would have told the ship apart from the old Enterprise. Never mind that the feature makes most of the saucer interior useless - perhaps this ship was only intended to be a testbed without any mission gear. But there could be further variable geometry built into the model as well. Just look how the pylons are mounted to the aft hull - lots of open space as if to allow for movement. Perhaps the nacelle pairs can move closer to each other from that perfect cruciform arrangement in certain flight modes? In fact, the nacelle shape suggests that perhaps the upper ones were intended to fit perfectly against the lower ones, creating a hemispherical forward end where now there are 1/8-spherical endcaps. The mounting of the pylons on the nacelles does not exactly support this kind of extreme variable geometry, since there are no cutouts in the inner walls for fully horizontal pylons - but perhaps BG intended to introduce them to the final version, were it to be built to these specs. I must ask Okuda if he can perform a little experimentation with the ship. And when it is ruined beyond repair, you can all come and stab me if you can find your way to Finl... I mean, Madagaskar. I just recently moved. Boy, it's hot in Tananarive. If this ship really is variable-geometry, then it probably was not intended for operational use at all. Perhaps it was a simple VG experiment predating Intrepid, or perhaps an early transwarp testbed that paved the way for the real NX-2000... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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