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Maybe the subspace drive coils? They're suppose to lower the mass of a starship at impulse, and in case of warp flight, hold onto a hand-off warp field from the stardrive section long enough to decelerate safely back to sublight and not have the stardrive go crashing into it.
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Then what in my memory is the accelerator coils.... or assembly.... or, if my memory is failing help me reboot it.....
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quote:Originally posted by David Templar: Maybe the subspace drive coils? They're suppose to lower the mass of a starship at impulse, and in case of warp flight, hold onto a hand-off warp field from the stardrive section long enough to decelerate safely back to sublight and not have the stardrive go crashing into it.
Wow . . . I've never seen so much confusion over a missing R before.
Dude said "space-time drive coils" when he was referring to what, in the TM, is referred to as "space-time driver coils". And, as he indicated by the context, he was referring to the subspace thingies in the impulse drive.
Now, back to the point, I doubt seriously that those would allow sustained warp to any significant degree. A torpedo's warp sustainer is a large piece of equipment, at least compared to the torpedo. Using the space-time driver coils for sustaining a warp field . . . or even trying to maintain control of the saucer while dropping out of warp . . . would be like trying to use a knat's fart to guide a battleship.
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I'm surprised that nobody has suggested that during the war they should/could make special wartime sections to "snap-on" to the stardrive. Could add all sorts of nifty-keeno-tech bits.
Of course I'm often surprised - it is sort of fun.
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In the non-canon Dominion War novelizations, they jury-rigged the Defiant to rapid-fire hundreds of quantum torpedoes for that one mission where "Captain" Dax was assigned to blow up that sensor array...
Plus, in "The Jem'Hadar" they discussed adding extra banks of photons to the Runabouts. So we know that where possible, they probably do reftrofit ships with extra stuff. I'm assumming we're talking more about things like pods for the Nebula, strapping phaser banks to the top of Galaxy nacelles, etc.
Mark
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