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Well, the ship does have to accelerate. I doubt it was going the full 1/4th impulse from the start.
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I think that the original Enterprise having no RTS can be put in the same catagory as the original Ent not having a photorp laucnher. Or phaser batteries. The catagory of "they were there, we just couldn'tsee them due to the poor film quality".
1/4 impluse is the faster we've ever seen anyone reversing I think. Apart from ST III, there's the Nth degree, where the Enterprise-D was being chased by that probe thingy. Picard orders 1/4 impulse reverse, the ship flies backwards. The probe gains, so Picard orders full impulse, and the ship swings around.
Now that I think of it, if the Galaxy class seperated, it wouldn't be able reach full impulse would it? And what about the Ent-B? If that seperates, the engineering section can fly off at warp, but can't make orbit, while the saucer section could probably overtake the Flash.
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Both parts of the Galaxy have their own impulse engines. There is no reason why they both couldn't travel at full impulse.
The Ent-B engineering is probably not designed to function as a separate unit. The saucer would simply leave the rest of the ship behind (so it can happily core breach, most likely).
The Ent-D is the only Enterprise designed to operate as two autonomous parts.
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Besides, doesn't the E-B have it's warp core in the saucer, neck, and sec. hull? That'd make both parts rather warpless in the case of a separation...
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According to the tech-manual, the Ent-D only used the main impulse engines at low speeds, but at full impulse, the main and saucer engines are both used...
Maybe there were situations of the Excelsior-class warp-cores breeching, the saucer seperating, but not getting clear of the blast in time? They added the extra engines for a quicker acceleration curve, and incase Troi is driving.
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