Clean or Mean? What Sci-Fi series' tech is your favorite?

POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Monday, June 21, 2010 17:08
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ANTHONYT

Friday, June 18, 2010 2:42 AM

Hello Chris,

Good picks. And good pics!

BTW, you see the grills on the inside of the warp nacelles? I wish they were on the outside. It would provide some of that texture I like.

It's one of the things I like about the movie version of the ship.

--Anthony

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CHRISISALL

Friday, June 18, 2010 3:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
you see the grills on the inside of the warp nacelles? I wish they were on the outside. It would provide some of that texture I like.

It's one of the things I like about the movie version of the ship.

Bahh- the nacelles on the refit E look like toothpicks from an overhead angle. Texture can't help THAT>

The laughing Chrisisall

KWICKO

Friday, June 18, 2010 3:59 AM

I like the *look* of the ships from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But I find them very cold and antiseptic, very uninviting, not a place to spend long periods of time. I find the gritty look of Blade Runner's tech to be much more realistic, if dystopian and somewhat depressing.

Serenity is beat to hell, but she feels like home to me. Alliance cruisers like the Dortmunder may have all the bells and whistles, but aside from their medical facilities, I don't find anything in them to like.

The Millennium Falcon is a mess, and it barely runs most of the time. But again, it feels like home in a way a planet-sized Death Star never could.

If we're heading back into the black, I'll ship out aboard a scrappy little junk-heap that nobody would ever take a second look at, thank you very much. If they don't look at you, they never see you coming!

Mike

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KWICKO

Friday, June 18, 2010 4:03 AM

Thing that always bugged me about the Enterprises (all of them) was the nacelles - the thrust wasn't ever going to be along the center of mass of the ship. Wouldn't it be ever thrusting itself in an outside loop, a perpetual nosedive?

Flame away. It just always bugged me, even as a young'un. That, and the thin nacelle stems just look really, really fragile, and look like one well-placed photon torpedo would remove an engine quicker than you could say, "Oh, Shi- "

Mike

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ANTHONYT

Friday, June 18, 2010 4:41 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Thing that always bugged me about the Enterprises (all of them) was the nacelles - the thrust wasn't ever going to be along the center of mass of the ship. Wouldn't it be ever thrusting itself in an outside loop, a perpetual nosedive?

Flame away. It just always bugged me, even as a young'un. That, and the thin nacelle stems just look really, really fragile, and look like one well-placed photon torpedo would remove an engine quicker than you could say, "Oh, Shi- "

Mike

On this matter, make no mistake. I want you to go fuck yourself long and hard, as well as anyone who agrees with you. I got no use for you. --Auraptor

This vile and revolting malice - this is their true colors, always has been, you're just seeing it without the mask of justifications and excuses they hide it behind, is all. Make sure to remember it once they put the mask back on. --Fremdfirma

Hello,

The nacelles are there to create the warp field, but I don't think they create thrust, per se'. The pylons are indeed thin and vulnerable. Less so in the movie version, but still pretty skimpy.

From a war perspective, the races with warp drives pulled in towards the hull seem to have the right idea. Probably the best Fed ship in terms of that is the Defiant. No pylons, low profile.

--Anthony

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CLJOHNSTON108

Monday, June 21, 2010 5:08 PM

I posted a thread on a similar topic about 3 years ago...

Sci-Fi Spaceship Aerodynamics
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=8&t=28426

Personally, my favorite SF spacecraft is the Starfury.

Oh, and y'all might dig this cool website I just found!
http://www.scifiairshow.com/

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