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Well whatever happens to Archer's Enterprise, we know she will have an illustrious career. There was an admiral in a 2nd season TNG ep where he claimed that in the past 500 years, all ships that have borne the name has had great careers.
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Yeah, and while people are known to generalize, they never generalize about stuff like that...
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Actually, ever since we first saw a ring-warper, I've assumed that the ring-warp Enterprise from TMP was merely a really old Vulcan ship that Earth got from the Vulcans to play with . . . perhaps nothing more than a Coast Guard ship for the Terran system, or maybe a full-fledged explorer of local space.
Or, maybe, like the shuttle, it was something we got from the Vulcans, but which we never flew, just studying the hell out of it. Probably all those damned Trekkies wrote in to insist that it be renamed Enterprise, or something. :-)
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Or else the ring-Enterprise was a home-grown ship that simply mimics the Vulcan designs, figuring that the Vulcans know what they're doing.
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Could the war between the Federation and the Klingons be similar to the situation between North and South Korea? A peace treaty was never signed after a brief war. The relations are tense and there is the occassional border problems. A similar might be taking place in the late 2280's.
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But North and South Korea spawned from the same people and culture. They're constantly at odds because on some level, both sides wants reunification, just not on the same terms. Humans and Klingons have no such sentiments towards each other.
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You're all under the assumption that the rings on that ship are warp nacelles just because the Vulcan ships have them. There's no reason to assume that at all. For all we know, the rings are just solar panels or (if the ship is really large) habitable living quarters.
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Maybe the ring is a habitat section, rotating to simulate gravity. However, the ring seems quite narrow, I'm not sure if it's wide enough to accomodate a crew.
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The Rings are more than likely field coil housings, just like Nacelles are. But we do know that the Cardassians and many other species do not use external field coil housings, they embed their warp field coils.
PS: Stop calling the Rings Nacelles, there is a difference, they are similar in function but not in structure. They are both WFC housings, but they are not both Rings and they are not both Nacelles....
I'm sorry, I had to get that out of my system.
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