favorite KLINGON Starship design?
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Size wise i would say the Negh'var.
But i agree i like the original K'tinga. You do look at that ship and run away. The fact that they still use it even in the tng, you gotta respect the fact the it can roll with the punches.
Even when voyager was attacked by one, it still damaged voyagers shields, not by much but still.
But i agree i like the original K'tinga. You do look at that ship and run away. The fact that they still use it even in the tng, you gotta respect the fact the it can roll with the punches.
Even when voyager was attacked by one, it still damaged voyagers shields, not by much but still.
Same. Those two and none others for me.
D7/K'tinga/Klingon Warbird
Three versions of the same timeless (225 years in-universe!), awesome ship. I like how the briefly-seen STXI version beefed up the neck and weapons.
Three versions of the same timeless (225 years in-universe!), awesome ship. I like how the briefly-seen STXI version beefed up the neck and weapons.
Agreed on both.
That's why I prefer the Vor'cha class. If they'd made the K'Tinga with a thicker neck, I'd pick that one instead. My rationalization with the design is that the cloaking device needs a certain field shape to work effectively and the forward extended command sphere helps create it. Or... a nasty side effect of the Klingon energy weapon is intense radiation, so it is housed far away from the primary hull. The bridge has very expensive special shielding to help protect the command crew from the radiation. If it weren't so costly, they wouldn't have the command sphere extended so far as the rest of the ship would be shielded with the same material.
^A K'tinga with a thicker neck was seen in STXI's Kobayashi Maru test. You don't get a good look, though.
Well, regarding the neck, the Enterprise isn't all that much better. You either have to buy into the strength of the materials, or in the destructive force of the weapons that any hull design sans shields is a goner, freeing engineers to be esthetically creative. Or you can blame it on warp field mechanics...but then wouldn't all warp ships all look alike, regardless of species?
My favorite remains the BoP, but the K'tinga's a close second. The Klingons have had so many wonderful looking ships over the years.
My favorite remains the BoP, but the K'tinga's a close second. The Klingons have had so many wonderful looking ships over the years.
That doesn't make sense. If that were the case the crew in the engineering spaces would be getting irradiated to death every time the ship entered combat.
A few of the older Trek novels suggested that the Klingon's engines emitted radiation. The upper crust Klingons were kept safe in the forward pod while the lower caste Klingons (and even a few slaves) slowly worked themselves to an unpleasent death in the engineering areas.
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