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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tahna Los: [QB] My guess is that the Spider assembly as seen on TNG is simply a separate part of McKinley. What I'm trying to say is that McKinley is not necessarily a single structure. There may be a central facility for Earth Station McKinley itself, as well as separate facilities for Warp Engine Manufacturing, one that creates the hulls of these starships, one that does repairs, yadda yadda yadda, and of course, those "Spider Assemblies". As for the claw here's a possible theory: The claw extensions fold inwards in order to keep the ship safely secure to the dock in order to facilitate repairs, upgrades, and the such. Otherwise, a very large Tractor Beam would be required to keep the ship in place, which would absorb a lot of power. There are possibly many smaller Tractor beams in those claws, but they take significantly less power than Larger beams. Also observe that the facilities are in an orbit around Earth. Anything can dislodge ships from their facilities and send them crashing into Earth if they are only kept in place by a Tractor Beam. My guess is that the Claws will prevent this from happening. I can also speculate that each spider assembly has its own propulsion system in order to keep the facilities in synchronized orbit. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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