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Interesting - actual Foundation Imaging shots. But it certainly brings home one fact - quite how alien this ship is when you really look at it. It's far too organic. I can't believe anyone would fall for this trick. It's still nice to see these shots, though - "Hope and Fear" remains perhaps my favourite Voyager ep.

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I dunno about the ship appearing too "alien" -- remember that it uses an entirely different propulsion system, which probably necessitates the different hull configuration. Remember that Voyager's had problems with making the quantum slipstream work. And consider that a starship's hull shape is designed to (in part) reflect methods of warp geometry or something like that.

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True...for WARP travel, but we can't really say that for slipstream. Although with a shape with that much fluidity in its design, you'd hope that SOMETHING was driving them towards that style.

Could it be launching the goodies at a -10 degree angle, and then letting the torpedo pull itself up if the target is straight ahead? Pretty far-fetched...

Who designed the Dauntless anyway? If we're going to be seeing a 25th or 26th-century starship in the next series, this could almost be a taste of what to expect, given the 29th-century Starfleet ships we've seen look nothing at all like 'current' designs. It would be cool if it featured some new propulsion system, though - getting bored of warp, only interesting thing been done with it in recent years was the way the E-E stretched as it warped out; the prospect of seeing a ship do the Quantum Slipstream-type stretch does cheer one up!

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Spaceballs rulez!!!

Ah well, not really, no!

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