Why Bother moving the Nacelles?

[jpch]

Voyager has a warp speed of 9.975 that is like Ferrari nowadays,if a Ferrari has weird new alloyed wheel that reduce CO2 emissions you are not allowed to complain.

Let Voyager do whatever it wants with its cute tiny nacelles

[lurok]

Moving parts always look cool.

[tomswift2002]

Well I've always wondered why the Intrepid class was the only class that we saw on screen that had moveable nacelles. Even the Sovereign class had the non-movable nacelle.

[jpch]

tomswift2002 wrote:

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Well I've always wondered why the Intrepid class was the only class that we saw on screen that had moveable nacelles. Even the Sovereign class had the non-movable nacelle.

Well the Sovereign was 1 year newer maybe by that time they could protect space without moving the nacelles?? who knows

[Josan]

While I appreciate wanting to do something a little different the moving nacelles always seemed silly to me. And then, after a while, I stopped noticing for the most part.

[jpch]

Josan wrote:

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While I appreciate wanting to do something a little different the moving nacelles always seemed silly to me. And then, after a while, I stopped noticing for the most part.

its not silly its cute

[Josan]

jpch wrote:

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its not silly its cute

Not even if it had fluffy pink bunny slippers on the endcaps!

[Timo]

Well I've always wondered why the Intrepid class was the only class that we saw on screen that had moveable nacelles.

Well, two basic possibilities: it's something related to the other ways in which the Intrepid is unique, or it's not.

If the former, we have three unique things to choose from:

1) This baby can land.
2) This baby is exceptionally agile, at least at sublight.
3) This baby is exceptionally fast at warp.

Flapping nacelles might be related to any of these, or perhaps allow the ship to have more than one of the above when non-flapping ships have to make compromises between the properties.

Timo Saloniemi

[jpch]

Timo wrote:

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Well, two basic possibilities: it's something related to the other ways in which the Intrepid is unique, or it's not.

If the former, we have three unique things to choose from:

1) This baby can land.
2) This baby is exceptionally agile, at least at sublight.
3) This baby is exceptionally fast at warp.

Flapping nacelles might be related to any of these, or perhaps allow the ship to have more than one of the above when non-flapping ships have to make compromises between the properties.

Timo Saloniemi

That is also very true,in addition to the subspace damage issue,i watched an interview with Rick Sternbach and Dan curry,they both stated that Voyager or the Intrepid Class was designed to look agile,since it as gonna be the fastest ship in the Fleet,they also talk about why it looks the way it does,not just random but because of high speed and maneuverability and landing/atmospheric flight.