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who cares? Why are we suddenly, after 50 years, demanding that Starfleet have anything resembling strict OSHA compliance? Why do the nacelles detach? Because it’s an interesting visual. That’s it.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:who cares? B-b-but my NERD RAGE  though... 
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It still blows my mind to remember that the Enterprise D had a functioning school system. Kids would just be studying space-history when they gotta brace for torpedo impact. edit: how does the existence of a universal translator affect things like English class, do you have to know at least one language for that poo poo to work, or will the software translate to your personal pastiche of nonverbal grunts?
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Nov 25, 2020 04:06
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:cool that we've established the ability to detach whole parts of the ship but make no effort to do so with the highly dangerous warp core stamets had some brief line about the intermix pods being moved last week, that could indicate they're going to say the warp core(s?) is different now, but yeah kinda weird that's left unremarked on so far given the whole burn thing
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:It still blows my mind to remember that the Enterprise D had a functioning school system. Kids would just be studying space-history when they gotta brace for torpedo impact. I think the idea (or at least my take) of the big "modern" Starfleet ships in TNG-era is they're functionally cities in space and ideally big logistical hubs in their own right. It's not how it plays out week-to-week with the local space god trying to dissect the crew to learn about mortal lifespans, but ideally all a Starfleet ship like the Enterprise should be doing is be parked over a planet and spitting shuttles and Away Teams throughout the system to solve problems. The various scientists will study different things, the archaeologists go poking around on a planet, a few shuttle teams are bringing new Replicators to a colony etc, etc. It also does gets brought up once or twice in TNG how drat arrogant it is to have families on a ship that can be sent into combat at a moment's notice iirc.
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It’s fine, the kids have a weekly Active Energy Being Drill and all the teachers are armed with AI Disabling Paradoxes
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nine-gear crow posted:B-b-but my NERD RAGE hahaha nobody in this thread is mad, just generally confused or disappointed
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Erulisse posted:This needs to be redrawn as :romulan: 
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Superconductors today can keep things "flux pinned" in place with magnetic fields, I'm sure in several thousand years they can technobabble that up to warp nacelles kept in place by the hull of a star ship. The only reason they hadn't done this in the couple hundred years from now in earlier Trek series is because we didn't have that kind of thing to speculate bigger and better with.
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I mean there have always been invisible force fields and tractor beams and quantum burrito fields and whatever the gently caress, it's just 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:who cares? looks kinda dumb
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piratepilates posted:why are the nacelles not connected to the rest of the ship Speed gaps. They make it go faster.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:28
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Speed gaps. They make it go faster. Like I said, it's so when the ship blows up, the nacelles keep on going so that Starfleet can recover them and claim the ship survived so they can build a new one around them.
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Nov 25, 2020 05:34
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It's cool it's not like ships ever lose main power
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Nov 25, 2020 05:39
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From the amount of times a ship has been destroyed/disabled by merely being hit in the nacelles, you'd think they'd have done this a lot sooner.
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Technowolf posted:From the amount of times a ship has been destroyed/disabled by merely being hit in the nacelles, you'd think they'd have done this a lot sooner. There you go, it stops warp core breaches when this sort of thing happens 
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Drink-Mix Man posted:There you go, it stops warp core breaches when this sort of thing happens Also the Solvang from Lower Decks would still be around if it had detached nacelles. The Pakleds can just have the starboard one, get us the hell out of here, helm!
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:It’s fine, the kids have a weekly Active Energy Being Drill and all the teachers are armed with AI Disabling Paradoxes I mean, they can just blink at them 
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Speed gaps. They make it go faster. well drat, disco writers have outsmarted me.
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I sure hope the nacelles are fitted with phasers and photon torpedoes.
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Nov 25, 2020 07:35
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Gonz posted:I sure hope the nacelles are fitted with phasers and photon torpedoes. Remember, TNG showed that there’s a job position in Starfleet where you have to sit inside the warp nacelle all day long and make sure it doesn’t blow up or some poo poo. Can you imagine being that poor schmuck on the Discovery-A?
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Gonz posted:I sure hope the nacelles are fitted with phasers and photon torpedoes. Discovery's already got that covered 
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Seemlar posted:Discovery's already got that covered Eh, it wouldn’t be the first time a Trek visual effects department took someone’s design and went “But where do the torpedoes come out? Eeeeh, gently caress it.” 
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It's a sci fi spaceship, the pointy sticks on the wings are always where the guns are, gawd.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:It's cool it's not like ships ever lose main power With a millennia of development it's not reasonable that they never do unless something absolutely catastrophic and destructive has happened. It looks odd, but I honestly don't mind the detached nacelles as a visual shorthand for saying that we aren't in the 23rd/24th century Kansas anymore. If ships without power can go years without their anti-matter losing containment then a ship can keep its nacelles nearby.
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Maybe it saves on inertial sheer stress? They mentioned it improving maneuverability, I guess you're less likely to get metal fatigue in a forcefield, and it allows the nacelles to vary warp field geometry to a far greater degree than Voyager's. What if you can flip your nacelles around to nope out of somewhere in a hurry without rotating the whole ship?
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JEFFREY PLEASE
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Nov 25, 2020 09:49
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Gonna fight the Master Control Program.
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Kesper North posted:Maybe it saves on inertial sheer stress? They mentioned it improving maneuverability, I guess you're less likely to get metal fatigue in a forcefield, and it allows the nacelles to vary warp field geometry to a far greater degree than Voyager's. maybe it flobbadygoos the blamomama to introduce the wajajamics
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well why not posted:maybe it flobbadygoos the blamomama to introduce the wajajamics Wtf? Wajajamics wouldn't come from the blamomama no matter how many goos they flobb, you're either thinking of the hurdygadarian relay or you're just making poo poo up
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WARP 👏 PARTICLES 👏
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Drink-Mix Man posted:There you go, it stops warp core breaches when this sort of thing happens I'll always love how the Bozeman seemingly takes no damage at all from the collision Like, look at that ventral running light. Just keeps on blinking.
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Cross-Section posted:I'll always love how the Bozeman seemingly takes no damage at all from the collision Like a Lada hitting a sportscar
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Nov 25, 2020 18:19
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Whoever is bunked at the front of the saucer now has to be loving those personal transporters. Otherwise, without the connectors that's a hell of a walk to work. Assuming the spore drive saucer cavitation locks in the same place when it stops.
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Nov 25, 2020 19:37
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If they were gonna go all out with these disconnected parts they should have turbolifts shooting between them with the people inside screaming.
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Someone please stop me from spending unwise amounts of money on Eaglemoss' Black Friday sale. Please.
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SpeakSlow posted:Whoever is bunked at the front of the saucer now has to be loving those personal transporters. Otherwise, without the connectors that's a hell of a walk to work. I just hope the inertial dampeners never go out in the outer ring.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Someone please stop me from spending unwise amounts of money on Eaglemoss' Black Friday sale. I will not stop you. They’re great models.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Someone please stop me from spending unwise amounts of money on Eaglemoss' Black Friday sale.
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FlamingLiberal posted:What ones are you looking at Titan, Aventine, Akira...it might be quicker to list the ones I’m not looking at.
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