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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Rev: Ok. I see what you're getting at. That makes sense. That makes a good refuelling hub. Of course, when ships are refueling underway in space, it's probably much easier than refuelling by aircraft or ships. In fact, starships could even stop dead without worrying about falling to Earth. The nacelle cap is also good.[/QUOTE]Right, good to know we're on the same page. If the nacelle cap still looks too bulbous then there's always the option of bisecting, or even trisecting it with some fin structures. [QUOTE]While I don't lend any particular credence to Roddenberry's "rules" of starship design, I must say that the imbedded nacelle with no bussard ramscoop just doesn't sit right with me. For whatever reason, it has always been a distinct feature of SF ships to have both ends of the nacelle(s) exposed. There's probably some good reason for it. But even if not, it still seems to violate a basic aesthetic continuity. And the huge bulk of the thing makes it look even more ungainly. Why should it need to be so big?[/QUOTE]Well to be fair there is no cannon precident for a TOS era Tender so Masao is pretty much free to draw whatever he likes and I recall him explaining the reasoning for the imbedded nacelle. Being that it allows the tender to get closer to other ships without the worry of any outboard structures being clipped. Indeed I imagine a ship like this might be designed to be narrow in order to manoeuvre between a set of nacelle on a large ship in order to either refuel or service the engines. As for the bulk of the single nacelle, (my diagram not withstanding) I imagine some of the bulk is taken up by extra sheilding, to protect the crew and cargo from all that heat and radiation. The rest is just to generate a powerful enough warp field to shift all that extra mass at a speed that allows it to keep up with the fleet. After all, what use is a Tender if it can't top warp-3? As a side note it might be worth adding a set of intercoolers on that nacelle, since you'd need some way to dissipate all that heat. Say at the 4 and 8 O'clock positions? [QUOTE]Inline nacelles also have some canon precedent. The Peregrine is an example. And lately, the Illyrian vessel in ENT:"Damage" clearly had one centered nacelle.[/QUOTE]Does that look like the top half of a Romulan Warbird to anyone else? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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