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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Then again, we do believe that the round thingamabob in front of the Constitution class ships, refit or no refit, is a navigational deflector. It was not created as such by Jeffries, however. We're simply ignoring the designer there. I doubt that what's known as "ramscoops" now was part of Jeffries' original design, either - the red domes probably had some sort of indeterminate propulsive function until FJ decided to call them the "sink" ends of some sort of a huge dipole (the aft end was the "source"), and later generations interpreted that as them being some sort of "sucking devices", ignoring both Jeffries and FJ. I for one cannot accept the E-B boxes as impulse engines, since they cannot operate in a plausible manner when the saucer is attached to the rest of the ship. They can just *barely* operate in a plausible manner as shuttlebays, however. But they would probably best serve as some sort of cooling devices for internal machinery, so that only some heat would need to come out of the big red surfaces, not physical objects or deuterium-helium jets. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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