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Daniel, that was VI, not IV. And the real question is if the torpedo shot through the saucer from ventral to dorsal, how did the torpedo go through that room from the door on the left (the windows or whatever behind you) and pass through the room to the door on the right? It should have shot up from the deck!
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I do like the idea of an older Akira style ship... but not in this era. The Phoenix, Friendship One, and the Daedalus Class all lead me to want every ship from this era to have a more rounded habitate area--- on all axes.
I'd prefer a sphere, or something a lot closer to a sphere than the design seen on the patch or in the gladitor render. I'd also prefer that the warp nacelles were closer to the Daedalus than the Constitution's.
[PS: Yes, I know the Daedalus isn't exactly official in design... I'm talking about the most accepted version.]
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I don't see that much of a problem with it, J. In the 24th Century, we have the Olympic-class ships to worry about - they also have spherical sections.
I see no problem with ships of two main design paradigms - one with spherical primaries, one with saucers - and both existing simultaneously. However, to prve me right, I hope they *will* show a spherical-hulled earth ship in the series!
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Except that Olympic-class ships have never been shown to "officially" exist in our timeline.
Unless they were in an episode of Voyager that I missed.
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Look up the USS Biko, it's a modern day ship and Olympic Class. Plus the NCC... but we need not get into that.
The reason I think that spherical hulls are necessary for these early ships are simple physical principals. It is much easier for the ship to stay together if it were a sphere instead of a saucer... especially since the SIF and IDF are in their infancy.
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Unfortunately, in the episode it was shown in, the Biko was an Oberth.
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I could have sworen there was an Olympic Class vessel on DS9 [no not the Olympia]. I thought it was the Biko but I checked and the Biko was from TNG.
In any case, if not for the fact that there were other Olympic Class vessels, named outside of the timeline episodes and because the NCC's all indicate a pre-TNG origin [something close to 2330's], I think the Olympic Class is real. The Pastuer was just an older vessel that was still being used [unlike an Explorer Type vessel Hospital ships aren't in that many dangerous situations nor do they need to be as advanced (when it comes to warp drive, weapons, sensors, etc)].
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I'm horrible with Roman numerals. (as you can see.) And that's also a VERY good question!
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