D's are at the base of the neck. The saucer's are only for after separation.
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Gotcha! So why where Votager’s moved to the nacelles?
To maximize flexibility.
In the TNG version, it continues with...
"0.91...
0.92...
0.93..."
(time-lapse dissolve)
"0.995!"
That's dangerously close to...
...ludicrous speed...
...ludicrous speed...
Patrick Stewart is English. The UK has many different pronunciations than the US..
It's a joke. A race with turtle heads is going to have different standards of beauty! It's like when the Addams Family sees someone who seems to be out of a horror movie, and says how beautiful/handsome s/he is...So in the TNG episode "Manhunt" why did Worf randomly say "What a handsome race!" after seeing the Antedians for the first time? WTF? Who wrote that line?! What does it even mean?! LOL. Whenever I watch that episode and Worf says that line I think of this meme:
I suppose with the D, there were warp engines both in the saucer, and the lower section, since both separated sections could travel at warp. The warp engines use the nacelles, but Engineering is never inside them. It's in the lower section.
This is a human vie wpoint that's been around in one way or another for... centuries? And a very understandable one to me, except when it becomes simplistic and absolute. Take up violence, and some of you will someday commit atrocities, once violence becomes accepted.
I think the idea that Voyager would have moving nacelles came before the explanation as to why and they were grasping just a bit because in-universe it wouldn’t have done to say “the designer of the Intrepid class thought it was cool”
Hmmm…found this in the Archives. Could not find the name of Voyager’s Head Designer. He may have been “cool”, though.
“The Starfleet Design Bureau was a Starfleet Department created to oversee the approval and development of new starship designs. It was created circa 2185 to bestow order over the chaos generated by the great number of designs in the fleet caused by the joining of many races (all with their own unique ships) into the UFP and homogenize future ship designs, following the Starfleet standardization plan. (Star Trek: Origins)”
“The Starfleet Design Bureau was a Starfleet Department created to oversee the approval and development of new starship designs. It was created circa 2185 to bestow order over the chaos generated by the great number of designs in the fleet caused by the joining of many races (all with their own unique ships) into the UFP and homogenize future ship designs, following the Starfleet standardization plan. (Star Trek: Origins)”
More bureaucratic overreach by the UFP lmao Maybe there should be a story about a planet smack in the middle of federation space that was like, “Nah, bruh, we’ll keep our ship designs.”
I get making things universal, but this was a terrible, terrible, terrible style choice by the writers and designers because ship designs are what speak loudest in alerting viewers that they aren’t looking at something human. Ships are characters in and of themselves, and knee capping yourself to limit your design choices because “Muh federation” is ridiculous.
Pretty sure it would be much more realistic for a lot of those planets to have simply kept their own designs with slight starfleet variations. Yes I get that they wanted the viewers to have consistency for starfleet, but it could have been handled better and with much more adroitness while still allowing various cultures to have their own.
I get that most of the “action” is character driven but recurring ships are characters themselves. Can you say Millennium Falcon? Enterprise-D? Delta Flyer? People love seeing ships getting modified and used in creative ways to solve problems. Not everything can (or should) be able to be solved with a magical Picard Hand Wave or a Data deus ex machina.
I have ALways considered the various ships as (sometimes Main) Characters.
Ship Design Matters
Whoah whoah, hold it right there, Cowboy.
Those nacelles don't retract.
Those nacelles pivot!
IT WAS IN THE POOL!!!
SEE? YOU CAN'T TRUST THE THINK TANK!!
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