More on deck 3. The warhead has two antideuterium pods that get smashed into deuterium fuel tanks upon high-impulse impact.
Defiant Deck Plans?
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Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix had angled nacelles.
Saquist
Commodore
I'm not sure.
We've never seen a Warp field display for the hull geometry. But I think it would weakene at the bow shock by spreading the poles apart.
No I don't think so.
Those were the pylons But we know that Defiant has problem with the forward bow since they have to use lots of SIF power to stabilize the ship. I don't think it really makes a difference because they're not spread apart
to angle where the field could break.
It seems to me it was just done to keep the Engines tucked out of site since the ships primary offense is a forward attack.
That's labeled TURBOSHAFT (lower left). It's nearly the same as in the tech manual, which shows it is red.
It does bother me that the nacelles are angled. It's okay for the Bussard collectors, but there is a temptation there to put the coils in straight within those angled nacelles.
Why do they NEED to be straight? No dialogue or semi-canon source indicates how the angle of the nacelles is relevant, nor is it mentioned in the ever-sacred Roddenberry's Rules.
I call shenanigans.
I call shenanigans.
Saquist
Commodore
In the book Dreams of the Ravens written by Diane Duane the Enterprise is rammed by an alien ship that requested aid. The collision twist the port pylon and skewers the alignment.
Scotty says "we can do warp if you want to go circles"
I think the only thing that really matters is symmetry.
Scotty says "we can do warp if you want to go circles"
I think the only thing that really matters is symmetry.
^ Dude, I just finished reading that book last night!
FREAKY!
FREAKY!
The warp coils of the Ferengi D'Kora class come to mind, laid out along a curved path.
Saquist
Commodore
Sir, that is one of my ...NAY...MY MOST FAVORITE TMP book of ALL Time! Read it 4 times at least.
Dreadnought and Battlestations are good ones too.
Never read Battlestations. Think I'll borrow it from the Family Library.
Saquist
Commodore
Cardassians also seem to prefer warp engines where the glowy bits don't align in parallel lines.
Fun fan factoid: the backstage books suggest the ship has honking big warp coils relative to the overall size, rather than series of smaller ones, while certain fan sources for some reason choose to give the same engine type to Defiant and Norway classes ("LF-40") - an odd but reasonable proposition because the nacelles of the latter have the right diameter for housing coils that fit inside the cowlings of the former. There'd simply be fewer of them (four or five, depending on which MSDs you believe in - and all of them could be right if the number was altered between the early prototype flights and later operations, and some software was left unupgraded).
Timo Saloniemi
Fun fan factoid: the backstage books suggest the ship has honking big warp coils relative to the overall size, rather than series of smaller ones, while certain fan sources for some reason choose to give the same engine type to Defiant and Norway classes ("LF-40") - an odd but reasonable proposition because the nacelles of the latter have the right diameter for housing coils that fit inside the cowlings of the former. There'd simply be fewer of them (four or five, depending on which MSDs you believe in - and all of them could be right if the number was altered between the early prototype flights and later operations, and some software was left unupgraded).
Timo Saloniemi
I guess I'm okay with making the coils like this:
A few tweaks and a little progress, still not done:
Thanks, Mytran. Of course, it gets more complicated as this progresses:
And another update on all four:
http://lcars24.com/1-DefDecks.html
And another update on all four:
http://lcars24.com/1-DefDecks.html
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