From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: Re: Nebula class Starship
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:31:59 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In some article (bloody newsfeed) Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.130527.1625@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 52kaiser@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Matthew Kaiser) writes:
>
>> i'd say your right, however (according to the TechManual)
>> the new saucer shape dictated new math to figure out the warp
>> geometry, etc...plus it's four times bigger (or so) than the 
>> regular Miranda class starships (if the saucer is the same size as E-D's)
>
>  The starship designs at the end of the tech manual are for the NOVA
>class starships.

Yeppers. And the first poster is referring to something else
entirely: the Z-axis compression of the saucer section of a
Galaxy-class was the result of new warp physics developments. The
Nebula-class has the same saucer shape (as near as I can tell),
meaning that it must also share these developments in warp
physics.

No mention of those Nova-class proposals that *further* compress
the Z-axis warp field at all in the original post, nope nope. :)

Getting back to the Nebula-class, I'm rather fond of it. Got a
second Galaxy-class model from a box of Shreddies, and am in the
process of converting it to a Nebula class. Need to carve the
secondary-hull a bit more, and get something to make the rear
plate and weapons pylon out of. :)

Oh, here's an ASCII I whipped up, using a crappy VCR and tapes of
"Unification II" and "Emissary". Comments appreciated. :)

Nebula Class (Sutherland)
                                         
                              _.------._
                           .-'          `-.
                _________,'                `.
              ,'________/      _.----._      \
             /         /     .'        `.     \
          ,-----,__   /     /            \     \
         | ======  `-,_    /     ____     \     |
         | =========== `-,     ,'    `.   |     |
         \ -------------- \   | __,--. |  |     |
         |     >    |] o  |   |(__    )|  |     |
         / -------------- /   |   `--' |  |     |
         | ===========_,-'     `.____,'   |     |
         | ======__,-'     \              /     |
          `-----'     \     \            /     /
             \ ________\     `._      _.'     /
              `,________\       `----'       /
                         `.                ,'
                           `-._        _,-'
                               `------'
          _________________ 
         (__________ __ _ _)   
          `---------------'   ___.---.___
                  /  // __.--'-----------`--.__
             ____/__//===========================
             `---, - - -_`---..._______...---'
                /      ( . . . . ,'  
             ,-'--------`--------._ 
             (__________________||_)

               _________________
              ( _ __(_____)__ _ )
               `-___.-----.___-'
         ___.---'-------------`---.___
      ===================================
          /--`---..._______...---'--\ 
          |      .-'_.---._`-.      |
        ,-`-,    `._ `---' _.'    ,-'-,
        (___)       `-----'       (___)



Joshua
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