Most crew quarters on the EntD have impressive sloping windows like the ones on the top of the saucer. But have you ever thought about the rooms on the bottom of the saucer? Do they have floor windows?
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You know--this tech from VOY's "Endgame."
I get why the transphasic torpedoes introduced in the same episode haven't, given how they seem to be a bit much when a standard photon or quantum torpedo would work just as well (though quantum torpedo appearances have become similarly rare--I was actually surprised DIS, of all shows, remembered they even existed) so they're probably only reserved for extreme situations at most, but you'd think Starfleet would've adopted the ablative generator tech for most of the fleet by now, especially by the time of PIC (right around the same time said tech was originally native to in the alternate timeline it came from in the first place).
Yet it hasn't reappeared since, so...there must be an in-universe reason for it, right? So let's speculate--what could be some of the reasons why Starfleet doesn't seem interested in adopting this tech?
Any ideas as to what kind of ship this might be? It was apart of the fleet that welcomed the NX-01 home
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What do you think of the excelsior? I think it's excellent, cool, versatile, powerful, and very well designed.
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In TSFS, scott didn't really like the excelsior, but he seemed to like it better in generations. Why did he change his opinion about it?
Since the hype for DIS seems to have risen a little with it's soon-to-arrive final season...I got to thinking about those detached and "floaty" warp nacelles starships of the 32nd century seem to favor. You know, like on this ship:
From the moment I first saw these though, I couldn't help but feel very confused as to just what the heck the point of having them detached like that were, or even how they were supposed to work if they had no physical connection with the host ship.
But then I thought--maybe that's the point.
It occurs to me that, by the 32nd century, warp technology could've easily become so miniaturized that one could fit the whole system, warp core and all, into the warp nacelle itself and still achieve the same kinds of warp velocity. That way, you can get maximum efficiency as the nacelle's warp core can focus ALL of its produced power into just the warp system its powering, as well as make it all self-sufficient and self-contained for each warp nacelle.
And since it's not physically connected with the rest of the ship, should anything ever go catastrophically wrong, like the nacelle's warp core is about to overload, the nacelle can be allowed to just drift away where it's less likely to harm the rest of the ship. Further, since each nacelle is self-powered (and single-nacelle warp power is definitely been established as a canonical thing), the ship can just rely on the remaining warp nacelle to still get it back to the nearest port for repairs, albeit at a greatly reduced warp speed and efficiency.
And, of course, having the nacelles detached and free to move at will so to give precision fine-tuning of the warp field would be like the ultimate version of Voyager's variable geometry pylons. Which is what I suspect DIS was actually going for with the idea...but I can have my cake and eat it too with my idea.
What other ideas do you guys have on how the "floaty" nacelles are supposed to work and why?
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Did any enterprise before the enterprise d, like the enterprise c, have a holodeck? If so, which one, and was it as advanced as the enterprise d's holodeck?
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