Excelsior nacelle nomenclature
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It might be the FTWA during TSFS, but afterwards they would probably replace them, and if I remember right the nacelles looked slightly different when she was on screen again in TUC
We might as well accept that all the FASA codes are "parallel" ones, that is, every engine has a FWA or FTWA number in addition to being known as LN-64 or whatever.
(Or we could argue that one set of codes refers to the engine, another to the set of coils inside...)
However, doesn't some source give Koeller-Üti 27 as the engine model for the transwarping Excelsior? Perhaps LN-72 was the regular replacement.
Timo Saloniemi
(Or we could argue that one set of codes refers to the engine, another to the set of coils inside...)
However, doesn't some source give Koeller-Üti 27 as the engine model for the transwarping Excelsior? Perhaps LN-72 was the regular replacement.
Timo Saloniemi
Where do we find these "LN-72" designations and other such tech details? Is there a website?
I don't remember the TWX version of the engines, since SFPO considered them a failure (per Roddenberry) and replaced them with new, insanely powerful LN-72 'regular' warp drive variants.
As for the Excelsior looking different in TUC, that was largely due to the models' damage and abuse over the years since TSFS, and I'm not sure if we're supposed to accept that she was really reconfigured between being the NX-2000 and NCC-2000, though that's not an unreasonable idea.
Starship Spotter I believe.
426 HEMI?
Well, the bridge module changed both as a set and on the model. The impulse deck area changed to have one deflection crystal, not two, and some of the shuttlebay features were changed.
Cut 'n' paste link: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/excelsior/excelsior-nx2000-to-ncc2000.jpg
And in VOY "Flashback" the nacelles glowed blue:
http://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/3x02/flashback117.jpg
Of course, that's only in Tuvok's mind.
Ugh, yes, you're right of course -- I stand corrected -- that's for the catch and correction!
That came from the Ingram Class Blueprints. Those blueprints noted the drive was pulled and a "sophisticated form of the standard warp drive" was fitted.
I think I might have been behind the LN-72 nomenclature for the non-transwarp propulsion. I needed a nomenclature for it when working on a Dockyard Review article way back when so I probably just took the LN-6x series and moved it up one to LN-7x.
Alex did draw in part from my work for the stats on Starship Spotter, so that might be how it showed up in there.
I'm a bit dissatisfied with the idea that so many visually distinct TNG era nacelles would all have the LF designation. At least the LN engines look more or less alike, save for LN-72; the PB ones do, too. But the LF engines in Starship Spotter have little in common besides a red bow ramscoop (if that); their field windows are on top, or to the sides, or wrapping around, or all of the above, for example.
Oh, well.
Timo Saloniemi
Oh, well.
Timo Saloniemi
