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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Thanks for the scan! Seems they had the design pretty much nailed down at that stage, save for the nacelle orientation (and pylon shape). Sigh. I was actually hoping for something more distinct, something that could be used as a new standalone class from the TOS movie era. But this simple nacelle flip would make no sense as a separate class - it would be just another example of silly fanbody cut-and-pasting with no engineering justification whatsoever. The torp pods make me wonder about the story logic of ST2. The Reliant was supposedly assisting in science ops. One would expect a rather lightly armed ship, then. OTOH, story logic would also dictate that the baddie outgun the Enterprise. And not just because he's got the drop on Kirk thanks to that nasty evil surprise attack; dramatically, Khan should constantly and graphically have the upper hand because underdogs can't be villains and top guns can't be heroes in a Hollywood movie. That's a built-in problem in the story, and one the modelers couldn't readily solve. The idea to put the superior weaponry in a separate pod was a good compromise. An even better one IMHO would have been to give the Reliant a weapon type the Enterprise did not possess, and put *that* in the pod. Something with a distinct visual effect, something Khan would (falsely) think would give him the upper hand. Perhaps a "rocket pod", one that could let rip with hundreds of small projectiles? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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