Patrickivan wrote:

Anyway- not the point completely, but there is no reason that every ship throughout the history of the Federation would contain the same type of warp engine.
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Yes, I quite like the idea that the TMP refit was major change in the tech, and the TNG warp core was a refinement thereof, far more than the idea that every generation of warp drive had the same type of reactor. Seems like better verisimilitude to me.