Klingon Bird of Prey: Wings Up or Down?

[Timo]

The ship's M/AM reactors?

Possibly. But in ST4, there's apparently only one dilithium focus, so I'd rather believe in two sets of warp coils or perhaps two shield generators than two reactors.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Shat Happens]

MHO:

1- Both the Bird of Prey and the X-Wing's moveable wings/spacefoils make sense because they can land and if their wings were permanently in attack position they would hamper the landing gear operation -- or imply in an impractically big gear. Voyager's case doesn't look much to be the same though it can land (and it's kinda ridiculous. Also, the Enterprise in ST2009 should'nt have been built on Earth).

2- The reason many people are more accustomed with the wings in "level position" is because the model mechanics broke since Star Trek III ou IV was filmed and the wings were fixed for its several appearances in TNG. But it doesnt look it's best that way.

3- I think the OP is building a model. I love models. Show us some pictures.

 

[Timo]

if their wings were permanently in attack position they would hamper the landing gear operation

I think the big question is "Why is there an attack position in the first place?".

Surely the guns would fire just as nicely if the wings had just two positions - level for atmospheric flight and up for landing. The third position doesn't seem to offer anything new.

Wings down is the default flight mode of BoPs in late DS9 when all these craft are done in CGI. This regardless of whether the BoPs operate in space or in atmospheres. Since late DS9 is all about war, identifying the down position with "attack" does make contextual sense - it's the technological sense that seems to be missing.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[varek]

I always that the blades/baffles, doubled as hinges/warp coil plates--but the Haynes manuals have them as wings.

I love this hybrid here myself
http://www.starshipmodeler.co/gallery15/kk_121113_kd.html

Install a hyperdrive and lose the top nacelle--and you have a ship with great lines.

I think they are kind of like gull wings, curved.