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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Ooh, I like the idea of having super-hot nacelles that need extra cooling equipment on them. Yet another instance of pushing "old" technology a little to far instead of innovating new technology. I'm a little puzzled, though, considering that Starfleet (or rather, the UESN) clearly would've had plenty of experience with the designs of much bigger ships. So what would be the problem that caused this ship to fail? ...Well, the answer just occurred to me as I was typing this. The designers were trying to slim things down, to cram a warship the size of [i]Conqueror[/i] into a hull half its volume. (I whipped up [URL=http://www.st-minutiae.com/temp/Dragon_comparison.png]my own comparison[/URL] to see the ship next to some of its beefier predecessors.) Anyway, though the technology was basically sound, the equipment had to run too close to full capacity to be completely effective and safe. Another explanation could be that the designers were trying to cut down on the mass of the ship (which could explain the oddly-shaped secondary hull), and went with slimmed-down nacelles. Then it turned out when the ship went into testing that they were TOO slim. But it was too late to go back to the drawing board, so they just grafted on an external cooling apparatus. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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