Starbuck "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
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Um... If the Challenger was rebuilt like that due to battle damage, why the heck didn't Scotty just put the engines back where they came from, or attach them at the same point on the hull? Seems like they are currently attached near the bottom, which would require the entire matter/antimatter intermix system to be stripped down and rebuilt, Main Engineering to be relocated, and all sorts of other stuff. Maybe the battle-damaged ship needed its nacelles repositioning due to warp field stress on the hull, but when you jury-rig a repair you don't do something that means the rest of the ship has to be practically rebuilt!!! And besides, it would take a lot more resources than the average Federation starship has available to perform this...
However the design is nice, might base a kitbash on it
------------------ "Replicate some marmalade, Commander - helm control is toast!"
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I'm not sure if the repairs will be explained in detail in the book. If it was written by J&G Reeves-Stevens, then we would get all the gory details of rerouting the plasma conduits, and I would probalby disagree with everything they say. But Diane Carey is unlikely to go too deeply into such details.
Perhaps the ship lost her original pylons, but the nacelles survived. Rather than leave them floating around, the engineers decided to bolt them inert onto their now impulse-only ship so that the whole package could be more easily towed to safety by a warp tug?
I'm definitely looking forward to the New Earth books.
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A response to Timo asking about fandom USS Challengers. The only one I can find was a proposed but never built Archon class.
FASA had a Constitution class USS Challenger, NCC-1715. Commissioned as a Mk II in 2/00 (roughly equiv to ~2257), upgraded to a Mk III in 2/05. upgraded to Enterprise class in 2/17, scrapped in 2/35 (~2300). Replaced by the Excelsior class USS Challenger II, NCC-2023 (close!) in 2/36.
NCC-2032 in FASA is the Excelsior class USS Thunderer II.
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Identity crisis: This doesn�t really belong in this forum, but I�ll ask anyway, do you have pics from FASA of the Lotus flower class neutronic fuel carrier and the orion wanderer class blockade runner? The only pics I have are b&w of the Lotus.
------------------ "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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Yes I have both. FASA published nearly all their ships with pics in the same format: Black and White, three views. The Lotus Flower should be in the Ship Schematics Database. The Orion Wanderer isn't because Jim hasn't included Orions as yet. I don't think I've ever scanned it in myself. I could do so but not until next week. There's a small, poor quality scan at http://izan.simplenet.com/orions.htm
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Identity crisis: Yeah, the Lotus is at ships schematics. I got permission to use it on my page and I have. I had only hoped that the scans were in colour. If you could post the orion so that I can post it on my page, I would be extremely grateful. BTW: since you are familiar with FASA, recognise this ship? http://w1.314.telia.com/~u31412332/star-trek/conunknown1.JPG I know the quality sucks, but it was the best I could capture. It could be a FASA ship, the two other ships shown in the same scene were the orion and the lotus.
------------------ "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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Identity crisis: So you did, sorry, forgot about that...
------------------ "The Starships of the Federation are the physical, tangible manifestations of Humanity�s stubborn insistence that life does indeed mean something." Spock to Leonard McCoy in "Final Frontier"
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