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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I'd imagine that CLOSED, the clamshell doors would be strong enough to keep everything together, but keeping those doors upon during combat or maneuvers would be a no-no. I'm more worried about the massive internal empty volume being a killer for integrity problems. Anyhoo, I'm still not convinced that a portable Defiant-sized hangar is necessary or practical. Technology aside, how worthwhile is it to bring one back like that? It's probably not about people - the small standard crew can easily be evacuated by any starship of comparable size. A small ship like that was apparently not turned out by the score in the Dominion War, so would it make sense to build a starship specifically to bring one or two away from a battlefield? There also weren't many combat ships of that size anyway - the next cloest in size that we know would be the Miranda, I think, or possibly the Oberth. I'm imagining a parallel of building an armed supertanker that would be able to swallow submarines whole. Oh wait, that's been done. :) The principal use of spacedock structures in Trek is to support lighting and presumably larger structural components in place suring construction and refit; in practice, you wouldn't be doing this in battlefield conditions, and so you'd bring it back. And in the case of bringing it back at warp speed, we've seen that cute little Klingon-esque tug doing just that in DS9, towing the relatively massive USS Fredicksen away from battle. Maybe not very fast, but still... But I'm mostly playing Devil's Advocate here, since the design itself is pretty spiffy. Now, think of the numbers of FIGHTERS you could carry in there! Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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