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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] The problem left to resolve with the Centaur (or whatever) is the matter of the windows... If each row is meant to represent one deck, then it's bigger than Excelsior-sized. If the Miranda bridge is meant to set scale, then it is much smaller than the Excelsior. Indeed, smaller even than the Constitution saucer the Miranda's built off of. What this means for windows in [i]that[/i] case, I'm not sure... Yes, the Elkins (or whatever) has three deflectors. I guess this is one ship that's never going to run into an asteroid. Has the evolution of deflector dishes ever been filled in? Back in the old days, the dish was the main long-range sensors and the deflectors were the three little boxes flanking the dish. This held at least up until Star Trek II, as the Reliant has no dish, but does have the deflector greeblies. The Galaxy definitely merges the two systems into a single component, and it looks like the Ambassador does, too. I'm not sure about the Excelsior, but the two greebled panels in the neck might be deflectors, leaving the dish free for sensor duty. So, with the Elkins, if the saucer unit is the main deflector array, and the two secondary hull dishes are the main long-range sensors, we could have a nice border patrol craft... Or the systems could just be merged and it has three sensor/deflector dishes and this whole paragraph was pointless... Not sure about the "Medusa" now... I preferred it with two up, one down. And the Constitution variant has a Constitution neck with what looks like Constellation pylons. Since there's no mass-market Constellation model kit, they're probably just sheet styrene. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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