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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] It looks like it's made of vacuum formed plastic, especially that weird bit behind the bridge. But that may not be a bad thing. We live in an age in which the arms industry is designing plastic tanks. Perhaps future starships will indeed be made of plastic of some sort. However, I can find no reasonable justification for that contouring behind the bridge. Stealth doesn't wash, because why bother stealthing that little bit when the rest of the ship looks like it does? And in several places there are what seem to be unnecessary and self indulgent fripperies, like the extremely tapered ends on the nacelles. Why? What's the point? Do they make it go faster or something? Marks out of 10: 7 for interest and imagination, but needs alot more work (and a few deletions) before it gets into 8+ territory. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [qb] I'm not quite getting his shuttlecraft designs, though. What are the exposed conduits running along the shuttlecraft's fuselage? Seems like it would be risky to expose something so important-looking to the environment. [/qb][/QUOTE]Seems like an excellent idea. Remember that the external environment isn't the problem. Crew safety is the problem. Trek has excelled at implying that it's ships are death traps. I personally wouldn't travel from here to the moon in the Enterprise for fear of being blown up by a qwerty keyboard made from semtex or blasted across the room in a jet of superheated plasma from a conduit which the designer saw fit to conceal behind a very flimsy vanity panel right next to my bunk bed! The shuttle design is excellent from the point of view of crew safety because when those conduits blow (and this is Star Trek - they [b]will[/b] blow) they will vent their lethal contents harmlessly into space and the biggest problem the crew will have is turning a cut-off valve and managing their remaining fuel supply. Look at contemporary manned spacecraft designs. The explosive and otherwise potentially volatile substances are usually kept in robust containers [i]outside[/i] the crew compartment. If this means putting them external to the main airframe, so be it. Better that the stuff vents outwards rather than cutting it's way through other vital machinery on it's way to the outer hull. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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