Possible that Starfleet still developed the Galaxy X class in the prime timeline?

[Trekker4747]

As far as backstage doubletalk goes, the nacelles are basically the propellers of the ship, pushing her forward with power that is separately generated by a big boiler elsewhere in the ship.

Expanding the analogy is easy enough. Small ships may have one propeller, because that's cheap. Big ones would benefit from having more, though:

1) They can translate power to motion better, beyond the limited capability of any single given propeller to do so.
2) Redundancy is nice.
3) Two or more propellers are needed if you also want steering authority (unless you go Azipod or the like).

Even today, one prop is for cheap warships; two is very common in warships; three or four is for large warships (but also used to be for tiny boats that could not mount large props and had lots of power to translate to lots of motion - today, single or twin waterjets are the preferred solution); and stealth or economy generally favor a single large propeller, to be found in subs and big civilian ships.

Perhaps a Constellation has only a tad more power than a Constitution, but prefers to distribute the translating-to-motion job to more pairs for reduced wear and tear. Or then it does pack twice the power. And perhaps needs it due to having twice the mass or whatever (it also has two sets of impulse systems).

Timo Saloniemi

Planes have propellers. Ships have screws.

 

[Tenacity]

nope, on ships they are in fact called "propellers."

 

[Timo]

Depends a bit on the century.

Since propeller is the more generic of the words, it might just as well apply to jet engines (it basically never does) and warp nacelles (just ye wait).

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Go-Captain]

I would love to see the Galaxy upgrade with phaser cannon, more torpedo tubes, and third nacelle. The rest of the details are negotiable. I really wanted the new ships to have the phaser cannon, and it would have fit really well with a more militaristic post-Borg, post-Dominion, post-more-Borg, post-space-9/11 Starfleet. I also assume the Starfleet fleet we see is a combat fleet.

I would also love to see mostly unchanged Galaxy class ships out there doing their thing discovering new worlds and civilizations. Perhaps change only the nacelles since the idea used to be the nacelles could be hot swapped, and that fits how the new ships only really vary the nacelles, and fits the Constitution class upgrade. It's too bad we never saw the Miranda and Excelsior with overtly upgraded nacelles.

 

[Trekker4747]

I would love to see the Galaxy upgrade with phaser cannon, more torpedo tubes, and third nacelle. The rest of the details are negotiable. I really wanted the new ships to have the phaser cannon, and it would have fit really well with a more militaristic post-Borg, post-Dominion, post-more-Borg, post-space-9/11 Starfleet. I also assume the Starfleet fleet we see is a combat fleet.

Ah, yes, the USS Fanboy. Because that's what's needed, more combats and space battles.

THAT'S what this series is about!

 

[Tenacity]

THAT'S what this series is about!

PART of what the different series have always been about is a fair amount of combat.

 

[trekshark]

It's too bad we never saw the Miranda and Excelsior with overtly upgraded nacelles.

I'd have liked a Miranda with scaled for size upside down sovereign nacelles

 

[NCC-73515]

I'd have liked a Miranda with scaled for size upside down sovereign nacelles

Something like that?
https://sto.gamepedia.com/File:Reliant_Class.png

 

[trekshark]

Something like that?
https://sto.gamepedia.com/File:Reliant_Class.png

Sort of.
Looks like sto has added ships since i last played. Wonder if i can find my credentials

 

[somebuddyX]

I always figured they would have still built this type of ship in the real timeline. I don't think it'd be back in Picard and that doesn't bother me. I hope some fan someday animates a cool battle scene with that phase-disruptor just punching holes in enemy ships. I'd love to see artwork of a Sovereign-class duking out with a refit Galaxy-class and have it be the Enterprise-E and Kumari. (Or once I learn how to make proper phaser and shield effects I'll make a crap one myself)

AFAICT, the ship class doesn't appear in any novels (outside of the All Good Things novelization, of course)

The Enterprise-D in the Mirror Broken comics might be this class of ship but it's the Mirror Universe so yeah.

 

[Awesome Possum]

No, the engineer who designed it slipped in the shower in the Prime universe and never got to design it. The butterfly effect is a cruel mistress.

 

[mikelima777]

I made a similar idea in my fanfic. But toned down.

Have a smaller Phaser Lance (my canon is it one of those technologies developed for the Borg or Dominion) and the extra phaser strips. That's it.

Personally the Third Nacelles is the big turn off, as it looks like its try too hard, and also severely affects the usability of the shuttle bays.

 

[JesterFace]

Personally the Third Nacelles is the big turn off, as it looks like its try too hard, and also severely affects the usability of the shuttle bays.

4 nacelles might have looked better, Stargazer style or something like that.