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In "Cease Fire"[ENT2], the Enterprise demonstrated the ability to achieve a speed of 1460c. With her injectors running at 110% (though, as stated, they are rated to withstand 120%), she was able to reach Weytahn, "a dozen light-years" from her original position, in three days.
Given the present low speed of the ship, plus time to refit based on the NX-Gen ship specs, the three day trip at greater-than-five works pretty well, actually, at least going by the "Cease Fire" example.
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quote:Originally posted by Futurama Guy: Do stars drift that much in 117 years? Isn't that like 5 seconds in interstellar time?
If there was a nova in the immeadeate area, yeah. Otherwise...probably not much (although Mayweather's nav-computer would've registered any diffrences, I'm sure).
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: Karyn Archer is part alien because Archer (her great-grandfather) married an Ikaran (ph) whom Enterprise rescued.
Ikaaran. Her name was Esilia. And the species that attacked them in the nebula was the Kovaalans. Just for the sake of clarification for those keeping track of alien races.
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim:
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Karyn Archer is part alien because Archer (her great-grandfather) married an Ikaran (ph) whom Enterprise rescued.
Ikaaran. Her name was Esilia. And the species that attacked them in the nebula was the Kovaalans. Just for the sake of clarification for those keeping track of alien races.
Geee, I hope John remembers to rescue her now.
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I beg your pardon? Esilia lived a century in the past. And she was either rescued by another ship or perished in the anomaly field.
Unless of course you want to take into account the Many Worlds Hypothesis (smart but often difficult thing to do) in which case she was still rescued by the NX-01.
And another ship.
And perished.
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Yes. I am slowly but surely working on a timeline/catalog of her weapons and where they emerge from . . . I haven't seen the supercharger cannons before, though that might be the origin point for some other mystery shots seen on other occasions.
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IIRC, the original shipboard pulse cannons (way back in "Broken Bow") also fired from roughly the same area. Perhaps they were (finally) upgraded to phase cannons.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they completely without warp drive now? IIRC, they didn't get the upgrades from the other ship, and their coil/injector/alkwefokdsf... SOMETHING got busted in the attack. Notice that the port nacelle is not glowing in the last scene.
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Meh, I'm sure they'll fix that. They busted a "drive coil" this time around, but it might be a duct-tape kinda fix. As for the "supercharger" phase cannons, I believe they were first seen in "Shockwave, Part II" when Enterprise was being swarmed by Suliban cell ships.
I've actually got a pet theory regarding the number of phase cannons... I think they actually DO have only three or four, but the cannons themselves are able to travel around the ship on rails. We've seen that the cannons aren't very large, and deploy from hatches on extending arms. What if the cannons are capable of moving around inside the ship to get from the bottom hatches we usually see them in, to the top ones? What if whatever goes into making the phase cannons is so complicated or expensive that it's more efficient to deploy them from various hatches rather than getting more of them?
I know this is reaching, but I'm inspired by what's been said of the never-seen robot arms Enterprise has, according to the designer. Said arms are on movable cradles (a la planned ISS modules) that can deploy from the top OR bottom doors we see on either side of the saucer. If they can do that with big robot arms...
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The busted drive coil took down the impulse engine, leading me to think that they might be referring to the space-time drive coils mentioned in TNGTM. Too bad they missed the part about them being introduced over a hundred years later.
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