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Does any one have an idea of what the large rings at the aft of the Declaration Class Starliner do? Jeffries describes the engines for this design as a cluster of "quick change units", but I don't recall any comment on the large rings. Since most of his designs were concerned with keeping the inhabited part of the ship away from the dangerous radiation of the engines, I think we can rule out centrifuge habitats. Treknical ideas?
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Would that be the Enterprise from the TMP display that looks like a stick w/ a couple of large rings at the back? I think the most commonly-held belief is that those are the warp engines, just like on many Vulcan ships (the T'Pau et al. from TNG and pretty much all the ones from ENT).
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Since the warp field is created by passing plasma through coils of something-or-other alloy, would a design like this have bunches of individual coils placed around the ring, like having a bunch of little warp nacelles mounted in a circle, with separate plasma feeds (or reactors) for each?
I wouldn't think that having coils around the ring, forming a circuit (with one long circular plasma conduit) would be very efficient. That would be like having one long warp nacelle bent in a circle.
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I think MJ had the cluster of QCUs (Quick Change Units) as being the power units; perhaps the rings do something to modify or manage the space-warp generated by the power units.
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