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Voyager- A Landing Starship

Maybe its just me equatin' the heavy end of a car to be the end that has the motor in it, but I would think that engineering and the warp nacelles would weigh more than the saucer, which would comprise the bulk of the crew quarters (empty space).

The big difference between the two being that the four wheels of a car aren't all shoved together at that end.
 
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Maybe its just me equatin' the heavy end of a car to be the end that has the motor in it, but I would think that engineering and the warp nacelles would weigh more than the saucer, which would comprise the bulk of the crew quarters (empty space).

I was gonna say the same thing. Nacelles are heavier per square foot than the rest of the ship.

Ooo this is a good one, just as the landing pads start to splay out..


Reminds me of Godzilla's tiny little front feet.
 
Voyager's little chicken feet were ridiculous. The saucer-heavy ship would have tipped forwards.

And before the usual suspects (for this has come up before;)) chime in with talk of invisible magic fields, let me say: I don't care, they still look stupid!

There's no need for invisible magic fields.

Just the really heavy warp coils in the nacelles right that the back of the ship providing a counter-balance.
 
Yes they are excellent dogs, I used to have one myself. And I love that the Queen has had generations of them. They are a big dog in a small dog's body as they are cattle herders.
 
How about the landing legs being so close to the centerline that a stiff breeze would blow the ship over?
 
Now I've got a mental image of Voyager rolled all the way over, with it's little chicken feet stuck straight up in the air like a dead bird.
 
Even though Voyager's tiny little legs are disproportionately small, seeing Voyager land on a planet was always cool enough to compensate for that (the few times it did).
It definitely looks like it would tip over, although I have no idea what the weight distribution of the ship is, with all of the engineering section vs the saucer section. Considering the immense weight of a starship, I would guess the engineering section and warp nacelles might take up a large chunk of that (or maybe just wishful thinking for this to work).
 
I'd say they're part of a sensor mechanism so that they can analyse the surface that the ship will be landing on.
 
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