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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Adm_Amit: [QB] I think that retrofitting freighters could be logistically a little less complex a task than retrofitting current more complex starfleet vessels that are out there. The warp drive acts as an enormous power source to the ship. Well it feeds power to other systems in the ship. Integrating new technology unto older hardware requires a lot of upgrading on the large scale to avoid any incompatibility issues. It's not as though the Starfleet Corps of Engineers could just easily take out an "old" warp drive and replace it with Archer's Warp 5 drive and hope for the best. I must agree that the warp 2 on 99% of starfleet vessels does limit does seem like a ridiculous idea. If the warp 5 threshold was penetrated less than 100 years after Cochrane's Warp 1 Drive worked it would seem more likely that Starfleet should have vessels that should at least have a warp 4 drive incorporated as their main propulsive drive system. As for the lack of creativity that illustrators have shown with respect to starfleet vessels is quite disturbing. This new series could be a great platform for illustrators to come up with wacky or crazy designs or at least show some good precursor designs for starfleet classes such as the Daedalus or even Constitution vessels. I personally would really like to see a Daedalus class hull being constructed at some point (maybe at the end of the series). OR something even more fun could be a small storyline of an engineer at Starfleet's Starship Design Bureau come up with the design for the Constitution class vessel and have one of his supervisors toss it aside as saying that starfleet would never use an idea so extravagant as the constitution. OR have a story that parallel's Jack Northrop's design of the flying wing. Jack Northrop came up with the Flying Wing idea back during WWII. The aircraft was formidable but complex as the technology needed to control it was just not there. The aircraft went through separate stages: from propellers even through jet engines. The program was cancelled because the AF went with another aircraft. It took a long time to get Norhtrop's Flying Wing design to come into reality with the introduction of the B-2 Spirit. I guess a storyline resembling the Constitution class could be so easily derived from this. How Starfleet chose to go with the Daedalus class design instead of the Constitution class which was just not ready yet. I know this is not the right thread to come up with this but I just couldn't resist. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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