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It's a bit too big for my tastes. I prefer the saller ships in truth. That liiks to be a giant Springfield to me.
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I'm a little confused at just how small this design was meant to be. If it was to be smaller even than the Miarecki bashes then the ship could be about four or five decks high, or am I misunderstanding the description?
(Airlock for scale)
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Good likeness, Reverend. I think that's how Okuda would have had it. Just some FYI:
He never told me that he wanted the ship to be smaller than the Miarecki bashes. I know I wrote that, but that was just supposition from his email. All he said was that he wanted a much smaller Galaxy-style ship than what was seen before, hence the 1/2 inch spacer which would probably have had only one or two decks, & the windows on the saucer would reflect that.
Which scale model did you use? I'm just asking because I fumbled around with my 1/2500 scale Ent-D kit in Okuda's configuration, & found that the nacelle pylons would be lower, which would make the tips of the Bussard collectors on the nacelles actually touch the ends of the saucer's impulse engines (unless I was doing something wrong).
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I think you need to pay a little more attention. We've already established it to be Springfield-like. It just has no pod, a thicker saucer (though not really if it's supposed to be even smaller than a Springfield), and Galaxy-like nacelles. And it certainly is not Challenger-like in any way.
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Additionally, let's not get outside of ourselves here and forget that this entire design is merely hypothetical. A model was never even BUILT, let alone shot for the episode...
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Oh great... a 24th Century NX Class. Thanks Reverend...
What was that second pic you posted Akira?
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the first time i posted with two pics was the same pic but imagestation sucks so i just linked it hopeing it was bigger
next time was the challenger.
Ok this is what i fell it should have looked like but i forgot to do the conny type band around the top view. but if you guys want me to correct it i will
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Ug. A 5 deck saucer would make it NX-01 sized (as already pointed out), wht would starfleet A) make a ship soooo small and underpowered in the 24 century? B) sens such a ship to it's certain doon at Wolf 359? ....I'm still going wit Lobo's effort: at least it looks plausable for the time period IMHO.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Ug. A 5 deck saucer would make it NX-01 sized (as already pointed out), wht would starfleet A) make a ship soooo small and underpowered in the 24 century? B) sens such a ship to it's certain doon at Wolf 359? ....I'm still going wit Lobo's effort: at least it looks plausable for the time period IMHO.
nobody said it was underpowered. the Deiant is tiny and packs a punch. The size of a ship design depends on the mission profile. And there are lots of small ships in Starfleet (and the Navy for that matter) out of necessity
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I always got the feeling that the Defiant was intentionally small and heavily armed/powered and was a radical concept because of it.
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I always thought the uniquness of the defiant class was more due to it's armament and relative lack of scientific facilities compared to other ships, rather than it's high power. Although I think it was mentioned a few times it was more highly powered?
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