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[QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [QB] He's not saying the rules are invalid. He's saying they've been invalidated, or contradicted, many times. The one that quickly comes to my mind is the Freedom class. Here are comments from Ex-Astris-Scientia.org [QUOTE]Annotations 1) The "Frying-pan" class by Greg Jein is the only strictly canon ship with a single warp nacelle known by now. The Firebrand was among the ships in the Wolf 359 graveyard, and is depicted in the Star Trek Fact Files. 2) It has been argued that the ship wouldn't violate Roddenberry design rule #2 (nacelles must be in pairs) because the Galaxy-class nacelle has warp coils in pairs. But since the coils are vertically staggered inside the nacelle, they would act more like a single coil than if one were beside the other. Thus, if the warp engines are co-dependent across the ship's symmetry axis, it is a very inefficient arrangement.[/QUOTE]Here are the rules: [QUOTE] Rule #1 Warp nacelles *must* be in pairs. Rule #2 Warp nacelles must have at least 50% line-of-sight on each other across the hull. Rule #3 Both warp nacelles must be fully visible from the front. Rule #4 The bridge must be located at the top center of the primary hull.[/QUOTE]Specifically points 1 and 2. My impression is that Roddenberry created the nonsense that warp nacelles must be in pairs in order to discredit Franz Joseph Design's work on the one-nacelled scout and destroyer concept from the Tech Manual. Roddenberry then flip-flopped with the Freedom so he had to come up with some explaination. Stating that the single nacelle was really a dual nacelle in disgusie sounds like he pulled it out of his butt. The Challenger class would be another one that violates this principle. Heck, nearly every Cardassian ship violates the concept. There is no clear space between the Cardassian nacelles. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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