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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Yeah, maybe. I've never really studied Vulcan ships much, owing to their previous small numbers. However, I do like the Vulcan ships from series 5 quite a bit. I suppose Starfleet might consider using an unusual nacelle layout, but only if it were much superior to standard nacelles. Being just as good or slightly better is not enough, since overcoming institutional inertia is difficult.[/QUOTE]Well then scoot on over to Ex-Astris and have a goose at the Vahklas and perhaps the "Fallen Hero" shuttle too. I suppose there has to be some reason that the annular configuration beats the nacelles in the 22nd century. Even if we ignore the NX version of events there's still the ring ship, which someone must have thought was a good idea at the time and someone else thought was worthy of remembrance on the E-Nil's rec-deck. Perhaps it's something to do with the shape of the hull, where the more compact narrow hulls make for a more effiecent warp field for the ring nacelles. Whereas the dual cylinder nacelle configuration works better with the saucer/engineering hull arrangement. As for it's place in the Museum, I suppose it could mark in history the point where the various Federation member worlds started to work together in earnest with ship designing and building. [QUOTE]So if you were to design a car you'd put the gas tank in the rear but have the refueling port at the front of the car? I'd think the problem of having a long internal fuel line is a more worrying problem.[/QUOTE]Generally cars don't refuel from other cars while in motion. Besides, I'm not refering to the fuel tanks for this ship's own drive, but those for topping up other ships. This is a Tender, correct? Anyway, just for a bit of fun and to clarify what I'm waffling on about, here's a quick and dirty throughline section of how I picture the arrangement of the engines and the secondary tanks. Plus a possible design suggestion for the nacelle end-cap since I agree that the currant one looks a little weird. [IMG]http://img9.photobucket.com/albums/v24/Reverend/sahara_engine.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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