True enough, although a MSD would presumably be pretty definitive - having a cutaway diagram proudly calling itself the 'Master Systems Display' showing bits of equipment and systems that don't exist seems pretty self-defeating to my mind.
Prometheus and warp cores?
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That's a stupid suggestion. A ball pit is the obvious choice.
Ah yes. Silly me.
One wonders how flexible that MSD "really" is. I mean, in the real world it's just painted on, but for the Prometheus one would think that it would be animated enough to show separation when the ship did separate.
Today, it wouldn't be at all unexpected if a display like that failed to correspond exactly to the physical reality. Software is always outdated, after all. And it would be way too much hassle to reprogram the display to show the lack of a second warp core or an aeroshuttle. But one'd hope the 24th century would be a bit different.
Timo Saloniemi
Today, it wouldn't be at all unexpected if a display like that failed to correspond exactly to the physical reality. Software is always outdated, after all. And it would be way too much hassle to reprogram the display to show the lack of a second warp core or an aeroshuttle. But one'd hope the 24th century would be a bit different.
Timo Saloniemi
Well, on the Enterprise-D one in Engineering, is a duck, a dolphin, Nomad, Gene Rodenberry's plane....
In the case of the one on the Voyager's bridge, it clearly visible behind Janeway when she is speaking to potential opponents.
It's ... a ... fake.
Design to fool Janeway's many enemies into shooting at the wrong parts of the ship in hopes of hitting something vital.
And let's not forget that shuttles can go to warp too.
Technically, at least a few decades prior to TOS. Or STXI would have been about JTK growing up to command Medical Shuttle 47
...because there's no way another starfleet ship picks them up...Technically, at least a few decades prior to TOS. Or STXI would have been about JTK growing up to command Medical Shuttle 47
...because there's no way another starfleet ship picks them up...Technically, at least a few decades prior to TOS. Or STXI would have been about JTK growing up to command Medical Shuttle 47
I'll confess to having the same thought when I read The King's post.
I'm not arguing whether those Star Trek IX shuttles have warp or not - I'm just saying that using the fact that the survivors made it back to Earth as evidence that the shuttles are warp-capable seems a bit flawed given that their distress signals could have seen them picked up by another Starfleet ship within days or weeks.
Which begs the question, why didn't they go to warp fairly quickly after leaving the flight deck of the Kelvin?Technically, at least a few decades prior to TOS. Or STXI would have been about JTK growing up to command Medical Shuttle 47
Instead of puttering along and allowing the Narada to take potshots at them? A minute
or more after their launch (and the Kelvin's ramming of the Narada), they were still to be seen at sublight speed.
A vessel design to be used to abandon ship under combat conditions, provided it had warp capabilities, would do so as soon as possible, to avoid presenting the enemy with a target.
The Kelvin's shuttles were sublight only.
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