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Lt. Tom
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To go back to the ejectable warp cores for a moment...
IIRC, ships in the time of Kirk (and presumably beforehand) didn't have a warp core per se, and instead had the M/A reaction going on directly in the nacelles. Wasn't there some TOS episode where Kirk ordered the nacelles to be jettisoned?

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Yes, in "The Apple", but that wasn't to stop a core breach; it was to make the ship lighter so they could escape the thing that was pulling them toward the planet. Actually, I think he said to jettison the nacelles and fly the saucer section out, so he may have actually been saying to separate the entire secondary hull, not just the nacelles proper.

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