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But I thought they were trying to be DIFFERENT from previous series?
(Don't mind me, just being facetious.)
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I don't think the ring ship and the Vulcan ships have anything in common at all. People are basing this assumption on the fact that the ship has rings. So what? Who ever said that those rings were a warp drive? Just because the D'Kyr-type ships look like the Talarian plague ship doesn't mean that they have anything in common, either.
If you look at the real picture of the XCV-330, you'll see that those rings are nothing more than (presumably) metal rings. They don't glow, have any openings, or any other indication that it is a propulsion system. Conversely, the ship has a huge rocket engine in it's center, obviously the true propulsion system.
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quote:Originally posted by Dukhat: I don't think the ring ship and the Vulcan ships have anything in common at all.
Except for the fact that the Vulcan ring ships in "Enterprise" were based directly on the TMP ringship, with as far as I recall, the specific idea that the Earth vessel was an attempt to mimic Vulcan engine designs.
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