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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Depending on the level of accuracy you want, aircraft are more often "scaled" than not, really. And just for the above reason - vehicles moving through the air have their fluid dynamics dictated more by shape than size (to a certain limit). The world's jet transports tend to be scaled-up or scaled-down versions of each other, despite not necessarily sharing *any* common components. And it's quite customary to build half-scale or quarter-scale models before committing to a full-scale prototype. Or at least it used to be, prior to modern computational fluid dynamics. This excuse can be used quite nicely with the apparently scaleable Klingon BoP, since this is a transatmospheric design. Nautical ship scaling depends on your priorities. If you aim for speed, your best bet (with non-planing, non-flying monohulls) is to go for something really long and really powerful. Which is why the final WWII battleships look very much unlike any other vessels. Prior battleship designs that paid less heed to speed would have been more remniscent of cruisers and destroyers. Whether this sort of logic applies to starships and their "warp dynamics" is unknown, but presumably it plays at least some role in Starfleet vessels. Few alien designs go for the systematic smoothness of Starfleet designs, though. Then again, e.g. Cardassians may insist on "scaling" their ships for quasi-religious reasons. If the Galor class really is shaped after the Cardassian national symbol and not vice versa, then we could expect the shape to be applied in other ship sizes as well. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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