• Davel23
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    168 months ago

    I got a fever… and the only cure is more nacelle!

  • @AngryishHumanoid
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    168 months ago

    More like the USS Compensating For Something, amiright?

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      118 months ago

      Compensating for not going enough warp.

  • IninewCrow
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    168 months ago

    You hit warp in the first episode of Season One of Star Trek: Overkill

    When you come back it’s Season 12 and it’s the final episode

  • @GraniteM
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    158 months ago

    I’m wondering what, if any, in-universe justification there could be for such a design. I sincerely doubt that additional nacelles are actually going to result in a faster ship; I feel like top speed is a function of the power of the warp core combined with the physical limitations of the ship itself to withstand a powerful warp field (see: “She’ll fly herself apart, sir!” from Star Trek VI).

    So this would absolutely have to be some kind of insane experimental test bed trying out a novel warp configuration. Or maybe it’s designed to be a warp-speed tug for moving planetoids from one system to another. Or it could be designed for massive redundancy, say for extremely long missions where you’re only running 2-4 nacelles at a time, but you want to be able to swap them out without having to rely on a starbase for repairs.

    In any event, this is absurd and I love it.

    • @[email protected]
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      118 months ago

      Or a weird experiment in efficiency, where you’re running like 15 nacelles or whatever, but the way the individual fields line up it ends up being more than the sum of it’s parts so it only actually takes 1/2 the power of a standard design.

  • @samus12345
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    98 months ago

    If Mariner went into Engineering.

    • @ummthatguy
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      128 months ago

      Plus a reawakened young Rutherford.

      • @samus12345
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        138 months ago

        “You know what this ship needs?”

        “More nacelles?”

        “More nacelles.”

    • OsaErisXero
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      98 months ago

      This baby can fit so much fully automated luxury gay space communism

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        Don’t forget the democracy. It looks like it could deliver a few gigatons of democracy without breaking a sweat.

  • @LordOfTheChia
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    58 months ago

    Just gotta live, one quarter parsec at a time.

  • @Desistance
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    The amount of antimatter needed to run those things might kill a solar system.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      38 months ago

      Yes, but on the other hand- lots of nacelles!