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    Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship

    Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek's Doomed Spaceship
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/09/08

    In reply to Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship
    I thought the Saladin Class ships were the weirdest looking since it had the nacelle and the engineering bay in one tube.


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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/09/08

    In reply to Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship
    hang on... the Shuttlebay has one of the blue click points on it...
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/09/08

    In reply to Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship
    Lead-in picture is looking down on the top; engine nacelle is below the saucer, secondary hull is above. Shuttlecraft bay is the door on the back of the secondary hull.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/09/08

    In reply to Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship
    the Shuttle bay is behind the Doors at the end of the top 2ndary hull. same doors as the Enterprise shuttle bay...
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    Image of AndrosZ AndrosZ
    12/09/08

    In reply to Get To Know Starfleet's Weirdest Looking Ship
    This has been up at Intel's "Boldly Go" website since the 28th of Novemeber. Why so late?
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    12/09/08

    @br4nd0n: Haven't you heard? If anyone on the internet has seen it before a blogger, it's automatically old news.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/09/08

    @AndrosZ: I just posted this comment right now as I'm typing it. Why is the internet so fucking slow?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/09/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Geez, you are so twenty minutes ago!
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    Image of KiddChaos KiddChaos
    11/30/08

    In reply to Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek's Doomed Spaceship
    What's with all the revamped ships looking like they took their design cues from high-end vibrators? The Kelvin looks like someone kitbashed an original Enterprise model and a Hitachi Magic Wand.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/30/08

    @KiddChaos: Yeah but no one ever complained about how the Nebula Class ships look like someone kitbashed the Enterprise-D model with a slice of cheese on the top of it.
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    Image of GalileoAce GalileoAce
    11/30/08

    @KiddChaos: But kitbashing is how Starfleet designs new ships....
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/30/08

    @GalileoAce: "But kitbashing is how Starfleet designs new ships...."


    And Trekbashing is what the rest of us nerds do..

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    Image of NadaNerpy NadaNerpy
    11/30/08

    In reply to Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek's Doomed Spaceship
    Also, Intel or whoever put up that site, not to get to Star Trek fanboy geeky on you, but the front of the warp nacelle (as pictured above) is NOT where the navigational deflector is located. It's at the forward end of the secondary hull, or that orangy, bumpy bit under the saucer in the first picture.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/30/08

    @NadaNerpy: I believe the secondary hull is the upper cylinder, and the warp nacelle is the lower cylinder.
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    Image of Sevius Sevius
    11/30/08

    In reply to Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek's Doomed Spaceship
    I'm sure that is simply a description of what a "navigational deflector" does, as opposed to a hint as to how Papa Kirk dies. (I believe it's fairly obvious that the Kelvin gets blasted to bits by the Octoship.)
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    12/02/08

    @Sevius: Agreed - I'm going to be that dork who admits to owning a copy of the Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual, but this is a simplified description of what navigational deflectors do.


    In order to avoid the very real world issue of space debris and small objects like asteroids and other small bodies, deflectors keep a small shield-life field up around the vessel at all times at low energy to sweep that debris out of the ship's path. It's so big because it has to emit a field around the entire ship/forward half so a ship moving at high speeds doesn't inadvertantly collide with an object massive enough to puncture a hole in it. :)


    There! And I said it all without sucking spit through my bracers!

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