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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] One can technobabble ones way out of questions like why the nacelles are still standing. Star Trek has always given out the message that Starfleet understands physical laws differently. The notion that the Constitution class is considered a robust engineering solution exemplifies that. What bothers me about that picture is the antimatter. Where is it? There was no suggestion, to my knowledge, that the NX class were capable of ejecting the core. I think this limitation even formed the basis of several plot devices! Presumably all this antimatter is still contained in it's magnetic bottle or the whole back end of the saucer and the catamaran nacelle struts should be either missing or spread very thinly over the desert. And that's a conservative guess. The entire ship should have been disassembled! And there should probably be evidence of some sort of relatively new cratering - probably appearing to the visual observer as a very large shallow bowel full of sand, but which to a physical archaelogist would show up as a bloody big hole full of sand on his subsurface topography charts. Unless of course the antimatter containment failed whilst airbourne, in which case the ship should be tiny pieces scattered over most of one hemisphere! But that is not the case, according to the picture. According to the picture, containment must still be active, although were the power for this is coming from, who knows. So how come all those little people are so calmly wandering around all over it? If you took one of the old decommissioned Soviet nuclear subs from Murmansk, raised it into orbit, dropped it in the Sahara and then came back two hundred years later, would you want to go anywhere near that thing? Even if it looked like the reactor hadn't breached and scattered it's radioactive guts all over the crash site, it will still be quite banged up. Would you want to go near it? Not if you want to breed one day, or even die of old age. Sorry if I've burst any bubbles ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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