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Sargon
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How many warp coils does the original E have? Does anyone have good visual reference on the internal arrangement of the warp nacelles?

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SoundEffect
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Sargon,

There's very little by way of 'Official' information about the ol' 1701, but the two closest and related references I've found are:

1) The AMT Cutaway Enterprise kit
2) The 1701 Cutaway diagram in "The Captain's Chair" CD-ROM

The AMT kit has one necelle sliced dwon the middle. I count 13 warp coils in mine although a few may be some other structure.

I've uploaded a screenshot of the cutaway diagram from "The Captain's Chair" CD-ROM:

1701 'Official' Cutaway

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Since basically all treknology as we know was invented during TNG, there is very little consistent canon information on the 1701. Most people assume that it's basically the same technologies, but more primitive. It usually works.

There is some evidence that matter/anti-matter reactions actually took place inside the nacelles. Or at least some M/AM reaction.

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Things I've seen, suggest that the TOS and A have a single coils, the D has double coils in each nacelle and E has triple coils... I'm at work and don't have any references. I'm basing a lot of that on the red lights glowing inside the clear front of the nacelle.

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Woozle, the Bussard collectors != the warp field coils.

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Which weren't even bussard collectors on the E-nil, never mind the fact that the Ent-A never had anything glowing at the front.

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*sigh* Fine, we can quibble about terminology 'til we're green in the face...

The glowy (or not) bits on the front ends of the engines that accrete interstellar matter != the nifty technobabble-forged metal coils in the aft 80% of the engines that actually generate the subspace field.

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What material are the coils composed of? I don't have my TNG Tech Manual.

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Verterium Cortenide.

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quote:
Originally posted by SoundEffect:
Sargon,
I've uploaded a screenshot of the cutaway diagram from "The Captain's Chair" CD-ROM:

1701 'Official' Cutaway

Geez, but that's a terrible diagram...too much pointless detail. You can't even make out the important bits.
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quote:
Originally posted by MrNeutron:
Geez, but that's a terrible diagram...too much pointless detail. You can't even make out the important bits.

The CD-ROM version is zoom-capable, but mine is assembled from many screenshots to get the whole ship at a decent resolution. You're right, there is an awful lot of pointless detail.

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