DumbDumb2007
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Why on the redone version of the Enterprise are there no Maneuvering Thrusters on the ship ? Will that ever be explained ?
Enterprise redone. Why no Maneuvering Thusters ?
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GodThingFormerly
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Which is the "redone" Enterprise? In any event, all three minor refits of the NCC-1701 featured in TOS were equipped with maneuvering thrusters, but like her phaser banks, photon torpedo tubes and tractor beam emitters they were concealed behind retractable hull plating in accordance with UESPA's tastefully minimalist astronautical engineering aesthetic of the 2230s. 
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^ I concur.
And hi, Mallory! I couldn't drop by the BBS without saying hello to you, buddy!
And hi, Mallory! I couldn't drop by the BBS without saying hello to you, buddy!
^ sounds good
...Having the Skipper aboard? Yes, definitely!
The TOS ship really had plenty of surface detail. If we wish, we can retroactively assign some of the Jeffries features a Probert-style technobabble role. The ENT hero ship carries some of these features, too, and her designers explicate some of the functions in their backstage exposés. The dark bars surrounding the port and starboard navigation lights on the saucertop are docking targets, for example - places for mooring clamps to grab.
What to retcon as RCS systems? The lighted squares on the saucertop circumference, perhaps. They are at the traditional locations at least (locations that make sense in terms of maximizing the momentum arm). And if STXI gives us a high resolution view of the ship, these areas are in need of some sort of detailing anyway. We're bound to get much closer close-ups than in the remastering and re-effecting of TOS episodes...
Timo Saloniemi
The TOS ship really had plenty of surface detail. If we wish, we can retroactively assign some of the Jeffries features a Probert-style technobabble role. The ENT hero ship carries some of these features, too, and her designers explicate some of the functions in their backstage exposés. The dark bars surrounding the port and starboard navigation lights on the saucertop are docking targets, for example - places for mooring clamps to grab.
What to retcon as RCS systems? The lighted squares on the saucertop circumference, perhaps. They are at the traditional locations at least (locations that make sense in terms of maximizing the momentum arm). And if STXI gives us a high resolution view of the ship, these areas are in need of some sort of detailing anyway. We're bound to get much closer close-ups than in the remastering and re-effecting of TOS episodes...
Timo Saloniemi
Me three or four?
I can't find out where it was first mentioned, but weren't the "maneuvering thrusters" an intermediate propulsion system between the pinpoint RCS thrusters located all over the ship, and the primary sublight rockets -- the impulse engines? The maneuvering thrusters were the vent-like rockets located atop the secondary hull, just to either side of the interhull dorsal, right? Four facing aft, and four facing forward?
I looked at the Kimble/Probert TMP blueprints and those things aren't labeled, but I know someone from that production singled those details out as the maneuvering thrusters. The RCS OTOH were the little "pinlights" located in bundles on the nacelle afts, at diagonal positions on the upper and lower saucer, etc.
I looked at the Kimble/Probert TMP blueprints and those things aren't labeled, but I know someone from that production singled those details out as the maneuvering thrusters. The RCS OTOH were the little "pinlights" located in bundles on the nacelle afts, at diagonal positions on the upper and lower saucer, etc.
Those that you mention are supposed to be engineering flush vents, according to Probert (both the 4 aft facing, and the 4 fore facing ones). I personally don't really like that idea, and prefer them to be maneuvering thrusters, just bigger and more powerful than the smaller orange/yellow ones. Located there due to the mass of the secondary hull (warp core etc).
Around the deflector dish at the front though you can see 4 orange/yellow maneuvering thrusters.
Around the deflector dish at the front though you can see 4 orange/yellow maneuvering thrusters.
The God Thing said:
Which is the "redone" Enterprise? In any event, all three minor refits of the NCC-1701 featured in TOS were equipped with maneuvering thrusters, but like her phaser banks, photon torpedo tubes and tractor beam emitters they were concealed behind retractable hull plating in accordance with UESPA's tastefully minimalist astronautical engineering aesthetic of the 2230s.
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This is true. Also, let's not forget, TOS was made in the 60's. Back then, they couldn't show Barbara Eden's navel! Heaven's it would be scandalous to show phasers, torpedo tubes, and thrusters on the Gray Lady!
Yeah, that totally screamed "Nerd Alert!" didn't it. Sigh. I'll get ready for my swirlie now.
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