Enterprise seperation
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The tech manual specifically indicates that torpedoes (and by implication probes) have "warp sustainer" engines which allow them to stay at warp if launched at warp.
I agree with the above regarding Defiant.
Granted alien ships don't always have nacelles, but I can't readily name a Federation ship that doesn't have nacelles and is intended to travel at warp.
That we didn't see the saucer immediately drop out of warp doesn't mean that it didn't do so shortly thereafter, which I would assume was the case given the current evidence, or lack thereof.
I agree with the above regarding Defiant.
Granted alien ships don't always have nacelles, but I can't readily name a Federation ship that doesn't have nacelles and is intended to travel at warp.
That we didn't see the saucer immediately drop out of warp doesn't mean that it didn't do so shortly thereafter, which I would assume was the case given the current evidence, or lack thereof.
There is a large rectangular area aft of the main flight deck on the center line that is "warp blue."
Flashover
Lieutenant Commander
Yes there is. It's between the shuttlebay and the bridge.
Just below (aft) of the main shuttle deck there are the letters ENTERPRISE
Next there are a row of lifeboats
Next there is what we're talking about, a grid that is often "warp blue."
Next there are another row of lifeboats
Now sometimes this grid is unlit, and on rare occasions the grid is white lit.
Blueprints do not identify this grid, whitefire says the area inside the hull there is energy generators and a casino.
Some fans believe it is the windows to a large green house (bluehouse?). The TNG tech manual also leave it unlabeled.
Flashover
Lieutenant Commander
Perhaps some kind of field sustainer. The Stardrive section generates the warp field and the saucer generates power to maintain the field for a period of time... allowing it to coast along at warp speed. Once the field is powered down for any reason... you are stuck at sublight.
Also this would allow a controlled de-acceleration from warp-speed to sublight during warp-separation maneuvers.
Also this would allow a controlled de-acceleration from warp-speed to sublight during warp-separation maneuvers.
Wouldn't the impulse engines be better doing that though?
Flashover
Lieutenant Commander
Possibly. Though I don't see how the impulse engines would be able to manipulate the warp-field... unless the saucer engines have additional bits and pieces.
*shrug* All pure speculation really. It works because the Plot(tm) requires it.
The impulse engine has a component called a Driver Coil Assembly, basically a small number of little warp coils. when you fire the impulse engine, part of the energy goes to power up a baby warp field around the ship. But the impulse engine won't give you warp propulsion, if the "thing" I indicated aft of the shuttle deck is what I think it is, it's a small warp engine, it provides the propulsion and works in concert with the impulse engines warp field, and is power by the impulse engines fusion reactors. Now this isn't going to take you up to warp nine point nine, but may give the saucer alone warp three or four.
On a couple of occasions, when the Enterprise Dee needed maximum warp speed, in addition the the main warp engines, Riker would call for "Full Impulse," I think he was ordering that this small engine's efforts be added to the output of the main warp drive.
Sorry to say, but I think you're reaching here...that being said, I did always wonder what those blue spots on the saucer were all about, but I figured they were oddly-configured windows or something...as part of the propulsion system they just seem completely unlike anything else we've seen used in Federation design.
I always thought that they were arboretum windows, like those on the secondary hull of the Constitution-class refit.
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