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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] Ive seen the 1701-refit and the 1701-A's impulse engines glow red too i thought. Not all ships have to use identical technologies, just similar. (the CVN Enterprise is nuclear.. doesnt mean that all US Navy ships are nuclear, just that some are) [QUOTE] modern warp engines shouldn't glow blue when they're not at warp, because that's what Okuda and Probert originally intended [/QUOTE] Probert and Okuda arent in charge of other ships. .their design intentions dont go beyond the ship they designed. A lot of Proberts intentions were vetoed during the first season, like the Sphinx and the Shuttle Front Door and the Velara III base. If Eaves or Mojo or whoever designs a new ship with blue red or purple glow tomorrow and Berman oks it and it gets on screen then thats the way it should be. Besides, once a ship has moved out of the designers hands and is run by new producers/advisors, their intentions are law. [QUOTE]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 WAY 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? [/QUOTE] What dont you need it for? Do you know the mass of the 1701-B? Do you know the thrust created by the impulse engines? No, of course not. You just think they 'look too big' Just because other ships get away with smaller engines doesnt mean they all can, and we dont have enough information to decide what 'right' and whats 'wrong' because this is made up science. Maybe the Excelsior-refits mission profile specifically requires more impulse thrust. The 1701-C and 1701-D impulse engines both use subspace field coils to lighten the ships mass to propel it. Maybe the E-B didnt have that, so it needed bigger engines. Maybe it was using a different type of fusion reactor. Maybe it needed the extra thrust to get Shatner and Doohans' huge asses out of spacedock? You dont know all of the variables in order to be making that judgment. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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