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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bernd: [QB] Here are my two cents on the issue of the third nacelle. It could be used to 1) achieve a higher speed (by pushing more power into subspace). Right, the Pasteur could accomplish the same with two smallish nacelles. Also, the additional power must come from somewhere. The ship would probably need a second warp core for that, making it a very cluttered design (which is what it looks like though). 2) re-balance the warp field after all the other changes made to the hull. This seems counterproductive as the nacelles are usually the heaviest components of the ship. 3) compensate for a design flaw or a previous structural damage. In addition to the rebuttal of 2) I doubt that such an effort would be made to rework the ship when slight unnoticeable changes could accomplish almost the same (especially within the boundaries of Trek physics where recalibrating something and adding a bit of new hardware is usually sufficient to repair and save the ship). 4) as a testbed for nacelles. In order to test big nacelles, you need a big ship. In this case the Enterprise has likely been retired from normal duty. But then I would expect the third nacelle to be of a different, newer type. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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