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It's an earthquake detector. ;)

According to the "experts" in such things, that's exactly what they would have done. the modern hoopla over doomsday stuff was media driven by sensationalism. All the while the really cool thing that the Maya were smart enough in astronomy and mathematics to pinpoint celestial alignments...

How about the same (prime) timeline, but altered slightly in the details due to some many time-traveling shenanigans, despite attempts being made to restore things exactly as they were? :whistle: This could even be used to explain some of the discontinuities in TOS where changes in terminology...

My two quatloos worth is that if you go with Matt Jefferies intention, an eight-deck saucer (with deck five being the main deck) works fine for ~947 ft. length, but if you go with an eleven-deck saucer from the writer's guide and as implied in various episodes (with deck seven being the main...

Some random thoughts stimulated by the last few posts. Regarding ancient mankind having been advanced but not to the current level. Perhaps previous advanced civilizations based their tech on a different understanding and application of the known (either to us or to them) “laws” of physics...

Another thing to keep in mind is that the Antikythera mechanism only seems unique to us because it survived the ravages of time by being in a shipwreck. Most ancient things made of metal were re-smelted and repurposed over the many millennia since such devices were made and used. Due to its...

It's been a while since I've read the book, but it's still available to purchase if you are interested, It's called "The Crystal Sun", and of course there's a lot of info on the web to be found. Here's one link...

Prof. Robert Temple has written about ancient lenses and how the science of optics was understood much, much, earlier then traditionally thought. For instance, he points out that the Druids (if memory serves) had a device that allowed them to see the mountains on the Moon. Sadly, many of these...

Not Star Trek of course, but really cool video...

I just noticed the rubber ducky hidden in the plans. I wonder what else is in there?

The area under discussion above has always been one of the areas where FJ had to fudge things just a bit to make it at least appear to fit, and hoped nobody would notice. Another problem area has always been the vertical clearance necessary for the transporter platform compared to what we see...

Agreed, I'd rather that not be done, or at least have two versions of the cutaway, one with and one without.

I assume you're alluding to TNG tech manual here, but I think this applies to TMOST as well, and even to FJ's tech manual, except in the latter case no new live-action star trek was suspected by FJ when he was producing his stuff.

Been following this thread and very much enjoying it, but just now have a question to pose, since it might be worth considering one way or the other. Have you considered that the original "Phase II" Captain's quarters had one large bed, and might this be something the V.I.P. quarters should...

Yes, and I was disagreeing, based on what I had read and heard in the past. But I'm far from an expert in the matter, and based on what I've read in this thread since my last post it seems I was wrong, So oh well, 1st time for everything i guess, unless you count that one other time when I...

I've heard both explanations for the color variation (film stock/lighting) as far back as I can remember, but the first or oldest explanation was that it was due to the lighting on the set. But regardless of the cause, the remastered versions were not wrong in "fixing" the issue, the yellow/gold...

Thanks, I wonder if they were trying to rationalize the wonkyness that was going on at the end of "Day of the Dove" where the only way to make any sense of the combination of interior and exterior arrangement in the original non-remastered version is to assume that the tube chamber faces toward...

Looking at the engineering concepts above, it occurs to me that the vertical warp core design might have been intended as a call back to the prototype "intermix chamber" (or "engineering core") we saw in TAS.

Yes, great work as always! And welcome back, you've been missed. As you know I'm mostly a TOS guy, but I do like ST: Picard and this Excelsior design is an improvement on the original design IMHO. Glad to see you doing something interesting with it.

Ah well then, that would explain a lot. ;) Edit to add, I was just perusing FJ's plans and I realized that the sheet for deck 6 doesn't actually specify Engineering either, but rather just calls out the heat exchangers, the energy converters and the twin impulse power units, which is exactly...