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

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

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

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

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



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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.

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

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

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

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.

Captain Seafort wrote: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.

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.

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

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?

GrahamKennedy wrote: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.

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.