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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Good explanation. I think of it like screws (propellers)on boat. One screw allows forturning in a wide arc (with the help of a rudder). Two screws allows for greater manuverability and a tighter degree of handling. Three is redundant, but you'd be happy to have the extra one if you were far from support or needed to maintain high speeds for a long duration. The third nacelle may allow for greater duration at high wrp by decreasing the nacelle's workload but would add several thousand tons to te ship and that could lead to less manuverability at sublight (where youd really need to manuver in combat). The strange thing is, I've thought a lot on this lately as I've just completed a model of a single nacelled scout update for the First Contact class o' new designs: the ship has kind of two nacelles blended into one (two Bussard collectors but one cylindrical body like on a Galaxy's nacelle). I'll post pics tomorrow, I guess. Point being, by TNG's era, there should be scouts (like the Freedom class) that perform as well as older cruisers (like the Ambassador) but with much less mass and fewer requirments. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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