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Question: Shoud the positioning and orientation of warp nacelles be according to some consistent Treknological reason or just attached wherever looks best to the beholder?

  • Placed with some thought given to form and funtion based on a consistent in-universe reason
    Attached whereever it looks good to me
    Who cares?
    Stop annoying us!

Author Topic: Sick of these yet?  (Read 213 times)

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Scottish Andy

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Sick of these yet?
« on: February 28, 2008, 03:12:08 pm »
I think I know how this is going to go...  :P
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Re: Sick of these yet?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2008, 03:19:25 pm »
Consistency!
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Re: Sick of these yet?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2008, 04:01:10 pm »
While I abhore canon discussions and am not as great a nit-picker as thou art...

I am still at heart a Trek-Tech Head, and quite often get my dork on.

I like consistency in my shows, which Trek does often fail at...but look at how many movies/episodes they have to look back on and remember about. Ships are no exception, and while I'm quite overjoyed just to see when the visual FX guys actually remembered where they put the phasers last episode, I do like to see that stuff make sense in its own scifi fictional way. I do think there should be a reason for the nacelles to be placed on the secondary hull [unless there just isn't one] and there should be a practical reason behind putting such easilly damaged and wholly necessary things way out on thin little sticks for everyone to have an easier time shooting at.

I'm suddenly reminded [on the subject of nacelles] of an interview with Matt Jeffries who had questions about WHY Enterprise even needed an engine room when the "...engines were 75 feet outside the fuselage of the ship..." His words, not mine. But this does tell you that the model makers and artists really aren't in on the 'tech' side of things for most of the production.

But...if you want consistency...then you shouldn't watch Trek. They're not well known for it.

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Re: Sick of these yet?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2008, 04:57:31 pm »
Quote from: Governor Ronjar on February 28, 2008, 04:01:10 pm
I'm suddenly reminded [on the subject of nacelles] of an interview with Matt Jeffries who had questions about WHY Enterprise even needed an engine room when the "...engines were 75 feet outside the fuselage of the ship..." His words, not mine. But this does tell you that the model makers and artists really aren't in on the 'tech' side of things for most of the production.

But...if you want consistency...then you shouldn't watch Trek. They're not well known for it.

--guv

Agree here, consistency has never been a key factor in Trek.

As for the engine room.  Even tho the engines are way out there, you still need an area that controls them.  Easier to have a consolidated control area where the power runs out and in from. 
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Re: Sick of these yet?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2008, 10:43:25 pm »
Well... this actually isn't going the way I thought it would. Everyone is agreeing with me so far!Admittedly, we have a small dataset so far. *hint*
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Re: Sick of these yet?
« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2008, 02:07:33 am »
Sorry Andy, I can but agree with you. Part of my like of the series is the tech and as such I like it to be consistent and "correct"...
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