According to an established source who wishes to remain anonymous, the main Series V Starship will look very different from the modern-day Federation ships we all know. One of the most important changes to this pre-Starfleet Enterprise is that it will lack the distinctive two warp nacelles that have characterised most Federation ships.
As usual, please be aware that the above info has not been officially confirmed by Paramount yet, and that until they make an official announcement on the next series any Series V news should be treated as you would any rumour.
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No nacelles? Th' heck? Does this mean a new drive system, like transwarp or slipstream? Or simply that the new ship will have integrated warp nacelles like on Klingon BoPs and other alien ships?
Mark
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Just not two nacelles ... but, yes, maybe something more along the lines of the Defiant, which doesn't have nacelles of any sort (no one is going to try talking me into believing those "stubs" are the nacelles! The engines, yes, nacelles, no.)
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Slipstream or some other form of drive would be nice. We�ve seen it so often on Voyager, it would be a shame not to incorporate it. You know, I seem to recall an early rumour mentioning a setting in a near future that involved going back to basics with the new series, a lone starship on an exploration mission, like in TOS, and using some form of new drive. I always liked that premise.
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He, he, he, that sort of reduces the importance of Kirk, doesn�t it? No, I was actually speculating based on the latest rumour that the new show will be set in the future, and that the prequel rumours were meant to throw us of guard.
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Since we are speaking of the rec-room, let�s not forget the spaceshuttle Enterprise, that ship certainly doesn�t have nacelles!
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I for one am not going to believe any of these rumours. I'll just wait and see.
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There is probably no reason to believe that TPTB would want to maintain consistency with that one; they almost didn't make the Ent-B Excelsior class.
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What the heck else would they have made it?
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A nacelle is a seperate streamlined enclosure. The engines on the Defiant aren't seperate from the rest of the ship. You need pylons to get a nacelle. You could call them pods on the Defiant.
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pods, nacelles, whatever you want to call them, i think it is pretty obvious that they have the same function. the nomenclature is just semantics. hey, you don't know that there isn't a pylon on the inside, and what appears to be a pod connected directly to the hull is simply a covering over both the nacelle and the pylon. whatever they are, the bits on the defiant have a bussard collector, a blue plasma grill at the back, and they generate a warp field.
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