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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] [QUOTE] When we saw these things, they glowed red, in the style of impulse engines. When impulse activity took place, they flared up, in the style of impulse engines. They are in the same place as the Ent-D's saucer impulse engines. The person who designed the ship said they were impulse engines. The SFX guys treated them as impulse engines. [/QUOTE] So what? The good shots of the E-C's impulse engines show them glowing blue. The stern shots of the Reliant from TWOK show the landing bays glowing blue. Are you going to try to convince us that they're actually impulse engines, simply because both glowed blue? Particularly since the Reliant's bays weren't specifically stated to be landing bays? And if we're going to argue about what the designers [i]originally intended[/i], then the Yamato is 71807, and modern warp engines shouldn't glow blue when they're not at warp, because that's what Okuda and Probert [i]originally intended.[/i] My point is that having the bays as impulse engines doesn't make much sense in either flight mode. In docked form, the exhaust fires into the warp nacelles. In separate flight mode, the "auxiliary engines" are [b]WAY[/b] overpowered for the load they have to move, especially when compared to much greater mass of the E-D saucer and its smaller auxiliary engines. Each one of the B's saucer modules are at least as large as the main engine on the D. What do you need that much power for? BTW, Eaves seems to like having his impulse engines toasting his warp drive. Check out the plan view from the blueprints of the E-E; the main line out of the impulse housings leads straight at the nacelles. Pretty strange thinking, at least to me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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