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The Franchise is in a slump... I'm sure that they will print a few more heavely graphic books, like the recent map book. Never know, they might do a set of technical manuals, to go with the fairly well made TNG Enterprise D book.
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A treat as always. I especially liked the idea of a Starfleet Vor'cha and using such a huge ship to destroy a small shuttle. Sort of like crash testing a motorbike using a Challenger Tank. I also thought the mention of Voyager's Aero shuttle currently being overhauled.
One thing I haven't been able to work out it exacly where the crew is supposed to embark frrom the mothership. I assume that one or both those dark shapes on the underside are for when the landed ship is landed (perhaps one of them is a cargo lift) But I can't see any likely dorsal hatches. Unless the crew climb down through a vertical jefferies tube of course.
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There are two oval cargo hatches (of the same type found on Galaxy Classes) that may or may not be able to reach the ground. The most likely candidate comes from Sternbach's sketches showing the front landing leg of Voyager. The full size set, if they could've built it, would've had a ladder on the outboard side. So the crew would exit Voyager from the Landing Strut wells.
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Hmmm... a Starfleet-crewed Vor'cha is an interesting idea. But also kinda strange considering that there were no hostilities between the Fed and the Empire before 2372. The only reason I can think of is that the Klingons donated or "sold" the ship to Starfleet... but that doesn't make sense, because even in the 24th century, military secrets clearly remain important.
Still, that's a cool idea.
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But the Klingons, once they found out about it, would almost certainly still want it back. I'm sure the British would want one of their Challenger tanks back if it got abandoned for whatever reason in the middle of the Iraqi desert and was picked up by the US Marines...
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Maybe the hulk was so badly damaged, that the Klingons didn't really care what happened to it. Any secrets might have been destroyed or whatever.
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Or it could've been part of a technology exchange. Sternbach, in an article printed when the Vor'cha was new stated that the Attack Cruiser was designed as a joint effort between the KDF and Starfleet. That's why there's a more Starfleet look to the ship than most other Klingon ships. Sternbach chose the color for the Vor'cha as a direct blend between the dark military green of the K'Tinga and the hull of the Galaxy Class to emphasize how the two powers were involved in the design.
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I seem to remember the front section of the Vor'Cha being able to detach (aka saucer seperation) and be used for a kamikaze attack against a target.
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