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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] "Christ, I don't post here for two years and all of a sudden I'm writing a doctoral thesis every time I respond. " It's called logorrhea. I find cutting back on coffee helps. :) I think that the producers could have taken several valid approaches to developing a ship that more of us could accept as coming from the mid 22nd century. After all, I'm sure that the first time most of us saw Daedalus we immediately could tell that it's much more technologically primitive (and ugly) than the TOS Enterprise. In the same vein, my early Fed ships in the Starfleet Museum are farily obvious morphs from Daedalus to TOS Enterprise, and other people have come up with similar designs. So, maybe something like my ships might have been expected but were perhaps too predictable and were not the best choice either. But what are other ways to suggest less developed technology without known design quotations or cues from earlier ships? One way is that they could have made the nacelles and other elements of the propulsion system noticeably larger in proportion to the rest of the ship. For my Romulan War ships, for example, I use non-antimatter drives (fusion), with large deuterium tanks, heavy nacelles for this purpose. However, the proportions of the parts of NX-01 are fairly close to those of Akira. Now, I know that one can rationalize these proportions by saying the drive system is less efficient but of the same size; however, I think they should have found a way to express this less-efficient technology visually rather than by simply putting red caps on the nacelles. Another way they could have expressed older technology was to have a very unusual layout, another strategy I've used. Any time a new technology gets introduced there is a period of experimentation when new solutions are tried out and compete for dominance. Eventually one pattern is found to be superior and becomes the standard. This happened in the early days of propeller aviation and again when jets were introduced. We can also see it in the Burgess shale, where animals with body plans unlike those of any living creature flourished for a time. So rather than mirroring a presumably successful modern layout, the producers might have chosen a more radical layout that was found to be flawed and never seen again. I use enormous midline nacelles in my Romulan war ships, something I'll never use on later ships. They're recognizably Earth ships, but of a radically different, less-developed technology. So, while we can probably rationalize NX-01's layout, I think the producers should have made other choices. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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