Starship Pics

[Mikey]

Aren't the dorsal tubes forward-facing on the New Orleans-class?

[Mark]

No idea.....I can't tell if they run the length. Maybe the artist got it backward???

[Mikey]

I think they're placed correctly, just facing the wrong way.

[Mark]

Could be..........but they look like they could still fire in both directions

[Reliant121]

For you Oberth fans (I don't understand you guys, but here you are)



Also from trekmania.net

I am a fan of the Oberth because it did exactly what it was supposed to do in a compact, effective, cheap and well designed hull without adding the crappy frills that starfleet seems to garnish its ships with.

[Mikey]

I'd tend to agree, but the tenuous connection between primary and secondary hulls seems unnecessarily fragile, even for a non-combatant ship.

[Reliant121]

I suppose. But that is probably the only major fault in it, that I can think of.

[Captain Seafort]

I wouldn't say so, not by comparison to other ships. Look at the Connie, for starters.

[Reliant121]

You can't compare it to a Connie because they are complete and totally different ships, designed for completely different purposes. A Connie needs to be survivable. a Oberth does not.

[Mikey]

I wouldn't say so, not by comparison to other ships. Look at the Connie, for starters.

Is that @ my post? The Connie at least had a substantial neck - the Oberth merely has a pair of nacelle struts which double as the only connection.

[Graham Kennedy]

Apart from the lack of a neck, one thing that strikes me as off about Oberths is that they don't seem to have a navigational deflector.

[Captain Seafort]

The full-scale deflector doesn't seem to be necessary - the Miranda, Constellation, Centaur and various other designs also lack it.

[Graham Kennedy]

It kinda weirds me out that some ships have a deflector and some don't. I remember wondering about it when the Reliant showed up in STII. If pushing all the crap out of the way while you're at warp is a good idea, why do some ships not have the deflector? And if it doesn't matter, why do some ships have the deflector?

[Nutso]

It kinda weirds me out that some ships have a deflector and some don't. I remember wondering about it when the Reliant showed up in STII. If pushing all the crap out of the way while you're at warp is a good idea, why do some ships not have the deflector? And if it doesn't matter, why do some ships have the deflector?

I come to DITL for answers to those questions.

[Mikey]

I'd always imagined that the deflector was necessary for warp travel; with some of the smaller ships, a hidden a/o small-scale deflector would be fine, but for larger ships (Connie, et. al.,) the large visible dish was more efficient.