[Why the Enterprise is an Amazing Design] (Viewer #37,723)
Also (by implication) explains why the Enterprise D is a squatty, ugly piece of garbage
[Why the Enterprise is an Amazing Design] (Viewer #37,723)
Also (by implication) explains why the Enterprise D is a squatty, ugly piece of garbage
They don’t snap off because they are not providing “thrust” in the Newtonian sense. They are generating a warp field (whatever that is) around the entire ship which (somehow) moves the entire ship in a non-Newtonian fashion. Please insert whatever technobabble makes you happy in the above parentheses. 🙂
Loved Star Trek from the first episode. Started feeling vague dislike with The Next Generation but it got better after Riker manned up and grew a beard. Didn’t like Voyager though I’ve heard it might have gotten better after I quit watching it. Hate the rebooted universe. For me, Star Trek is TOS, TNG, DS9, and, barely, VOY. Nothing else exists. 😀
Tried to like Voyager but Neelix was just too stupid and annoying, So I gave up around the end of season 1. According to the internet, though, it actually gets fairly decent once 7 of 9 joins the crew. That way they have their life-form trying to be human like Spock or Data or Odo
It’s my understanding that the original model constructed for the show was inverted (saucer & nacelles on the bottom), and that they turned it “upside down” to get a look they liked better.
Actually, from what I’ve read, it’s that Gene Roddenberry saw the original model and liked it upside down. The designers were able to convince him that it wasn’t supposed to be that way.
By Designers I mean Matt Jefferies. He deserves credit by name.
As a TNG fan, I want to argue about the Enterprise-D. But deep down, I know it’s right.
The Enterprise-E, on the other hand…
They invert the subspace particle field.
Why are you trying to understand the ‘science’ in Star Trek?
What’s next? Trying to understand the ‘science’ in Star Wars or, even worse, global worming?
Next time you start to wonder about the ‘science’ in Star Trek, remember the words of Gwen DeMarco, “That episode was badly written!”
Repete to yourself…. “It’s just a show and I should really just relax.”
“Give me a tall ship; and a star to steer her with…”
As said above, the nacelles generate the warp field. Thrust is generated by the I.M.Pulse engines, which are mounted at the back of the saucer section centered around the “neck”, and supposedly lined up with the center of gravity. They are used for sub-light travel. You can see their exhaust nozzles at the beginning of the video, they’re the protuberance at the back of the saucer, behind the “neck”.
I own a copy of the Star Trek Technical Manual, originally published in the 1970s.