According to early plans released in the Star Trek: TNG magazine was an auxillary or emergency warp reactor at the bottom of the secondary hull near the antimatter manufacturing plant. Any data on this?
Enterprise D emergency reactor?
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GodThingFormerly
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What does the ST:TNG-TM by Sternbach & Okuda say on the subject?
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Nothing whatsoever.
Plecostomus
Commodore
Non-canon speculation: The modular design of the Galaxy Class ship allowed the ship to be configured for many different situations. The first ship assembled was configured to accept a secondary warp-reactor. It was intended to be used during the early flight-tests in the event the primary warp core developed issues during high-energy regime testing modes. The second, third and fourth units retained the ability to install a secondary reactor, however only the USS Enterprise was actually fitted with one. It was decided due to the Farpoint Mission profile a secondary "return home" capability was needed as the ship would be exploring far beyond the Federation boundary.
When the Farpoint Mission was canceled (due to the loss of the staging base) the Enterprise had its secondary reactor removed at a Starbase layover. It was decided that the increase in vehicular mass and system redundancy outwayed the safety margin provided. Given the Enterprise's new mission profile (never more than a few weeks beyond Federation space) the reactor became an unneeded piece of dead weight.
Block Two and Block Three Galaxy Class ships (Dominion War Ready-Frame Buildup Units and Post Dominion War New Build Units do not retain the ability to mount a reactor in this location, instead the secondary warp reactor install point was moved to the saucer section to provide a power source for potential future saucer warp-drive installations.
When the Farpoint Mission was canceled (due to the loss of the staging base) the Enterprise had its secondary reactor removed at a Starbase layover. It was decided that the increase in vehicular mass and system redundancy outwayed the safety margin provided. Given the Enterprise's new mission profile (never more than a few weeks beyond Federation space) the reactor became an unneeded piece of dead weight.
Block Two and Block Three Galaxy Class ships (Dominion War Ready-Frame Buildup Units and Post Dominion War New Build Units do not retain the ability to mount a reactor in this location, instead the secondary warp reactor install point was moved to the saucer section to provide a power source for potential future saucer warp-drive installations.
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I suspect what you're talking about is an antimatter generator, which takes normal deuterium and makes it anti-deuterium, but it's a very matter-intensive process. However, if you've got the deuterium to spare, it could get you home, or at least close enough to a Federation filling station.
Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com
The illustration appeared in one issue of ST:TNG magazine many years ago in the first or first season and showed the deck levels of the Impulse Engine Monitoring Room at upper level and the emergency AM/M reactor at the bottom of the ship where the AM generator is located and appeared in an early novelization involving a return of the Doomsday Weapon, improved model where the emergency reactor was used to generate a warp bubble and encased the Doomsday Weapon. In the novel, the DW was defeated by a runaway drive to warp Ten and became stuck in a time loop that contracted to nothingness.
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