From: starride@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (David Chase)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: 1701-D Flagship
Date: 5 Jan 1993 09:00:02 -0600
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stanaway@ssd.comm.mot.com (Chris Stanaway) writes:

>In article 1i6mouINNmin@silver.ksu.ksu.edu, starride@silver.ksu.ksu.edu (David Chase) writes:
>>	Several times (I cant remember which episodes) the Enterprise is called
>>the Flagship of the Fed. . Also because the saucer section is a living quarters
>>ship (it has everything to make it its own instellar ship) the 1701D is the 
>>main body or as we use to call it the secondary hull.

>The NCC 1701-D is made up of the Primary Hull (or Saucer Section) and the
>Secondary Hull.  The two hulls can detach, but this is not usually done
>except in emergancies.  And, if I'm not mistaken, the Saucer Section is
>NOT not warp capable.  In order to to be warp capable, there would need
>to be warp field generators and, I believe, they are contained with the
>nacelles.  The Saucer Section then does not have warp field generators.
>And is is not simply living quarters, it is much more, including the Main
>Bridge.
	In the episode that I am thinking of it travels at warp 4 to meet up with 
the Enterprise. Also the warp engine nacelles are transwarp nacelles not the 
normal warp engines of old. Plus it would not take a large engine to push(warp)
something as big as the saucer section. Remember that by the time of STNG 
even large shuttles have limited warp capacity.

>>	Another point. In the first or second episode Capt. Picard is not liking
>>the idea that he is going to have a Living Section attached to his ship. He 
>>would rather have nothing than have that type of section attached.

>This is also an incorrect statement.  The "Living Section" is not some
>throw-on onto the Enterprise.  It is a major part of the Enterprise.
>What Picard did not like was the number of (or any) civilians on his
>ship (especially childern) whose safety he did not want to be responsible
>for.  Compare the 1701-D with the 1701 - the external design is essentaily
>the same - saucer section, secondary hull, warp nacelles.  I believe the
>1701 was also supposed to be able to seperate the primary and secondary
>hulls.  Also, most of the rest of Starfleet vessels are designed with a
>saucer section - that's just the way they like to make 'em.
	The reason the all the Enterprise's look like they do is that is the 
ship look that the producers thought the audience would go for the most.
The Stargazer model is actually one of the original designs that Gene R. wanted
the Enterprise to look like. Secondly the reason that the Enterprise of STNG
still looks the same is fans of StarTrek did not want any major changes to the
show. At conventions (many of them at that) StarTrek fans were asked and they 
told what they would like to see and have done with StarTrek. Many of the things
that are taken for granted as being locically thought out. A statement that is 
INCORRECT. Many of the StarTrek standards are standards because people believed
them to be and then the producers/writers/fans tried to make sense out of them.
	This is why there are many gaps and holes in the ST universe as why some
things are done and why others are not. Sometimes this is done on purpose.
The bottom line is   Does it sell, and are people buying it.  
>Hope *I* didn't say too much that was wrong.  (Don't have any references
>here at work.)

>Chris

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David Chase 

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