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and maybe they are long-lived enough to know domination isn't the path to go.

I don't know how much domination comes into the thinking. Perhaps it's biological and their gestation period is longer. Perhaps it's cultural and they put off having children in order to pursue other goals.

In cases like Flint, perhaps long life is not an inheritable trait.
 
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No, the closest we theoretically got was maybe when Scotty shimmied down the long access tunnel to stop the ship from traveling at Warp 14.1 in "That Which Survives." But that was probably adjacent to the warp core or another engine component and not in either of the nacelles.
 
No, the closest we theoretically got was maybe when Scotty shimmied down the long access tunnel to stop the ship from traveling at Warp 14.1 in "That Which Survives." But that was probably adjacent to the warp core or another engine component and not in either of the nacelles.

There was no warp core in TOS. The idea came about later.

I think the impression many had was that, when Scotty was in the angular Jeffries Tube, he was climbing up the nacelle pylon.

The non-Canon blueprints created by Franz Joseph depict such access. https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/stb-rescan/11.jpg

Again, not canon, but FJ got the idea from somewhere, even if it was just his impression based on the episodes. Here is an engineer tinkering with the engines in a manner similar to how a mechanic looks under the hood of or beneath a car. Matt Jeffries, the original designer of the Enterprise, stated the intention was all the necessary components would be accessible from inside and this is why the surface of the ship was smooth.
 
There was no warp core in TOS. The idea came about later.

I think the impression many had was that, when Scotty was in the angular Jeffries Tube, he was climbing up the nacelle pylon.

The non-Canon blueprints created by Franz Joseph depict such access. https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/stb-rescan/11.jpg

Again, not canon, but FJ got the idea from somewhere, even if it was just his impression based on the episodes. Here is an engineer tinkering with the engines in a manner similar to how a mechanic looks under the hood of or beneath a car. Matt Jeffries, the original designer of the Enterprise, stated the intention was all the necessary components would be accessible from inside and this is why the surface of the ship was smooth.


Thanks for that. Those diagrams were really interesting
 
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