Diagram I prepared for Pierre Drolet to build the secondary hull of the NX-01 refit.
Look for it in the 2011 SOTL Calendar.
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Wow Wow Wow. I like it. An original configuration NX-class could hold 83 people. How much more can this hold.
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Hmm not bad at all this one, but the front of the NX-01:
I might be wrong but the flat area in the front looks like the original deflector dish and you added a secondary one on its belly, ain’t 2 overkill ?
Secondary dont it make sense to move the warp reactor to the new lower body where it have more room and i guess you have to make it bigger to encompass a larger structure, more plasma flow needed etc ? (Maybe you did and i just misread the whole thing
However i like the design, looks like a “natural” progression.
I don’t believe two deflectors is overkill. If you’re trying to do a refit as simply as possible, I think removing the original deflector would be a lot of unnecessary work. Also, many starships later on seem to use secondary delfectors- the Intrepid is the best exacmple, but the Galaxy is supposed to have a secondary deflector hidden in the saucer as well.
As for the engineering hull, the idea behind this refit (in canon) was to give it a better anti-matter/matter poer source, so the secondary hull was added. That is indeed the location of the new warp core.
This is interesting. The side view is like the ’09 Enterprise, but the top view is similar to the NX config. And why not having two deflectors? If NX 1.5 is deployed during the Earth-Romulan War, Starfleet need the advantage. Yeah, I know that the last episode depict the old NX-01 still serving after the war period, but it is a Holodeck Episode isn’t it? It can easily be retconned.
I wonder who’s idea it was to “network the ship’s warp engines and impulse engines, using a bi-furcated stream of highly energetic warp-plasma” for all the key ship propulsion systems. It was a big mistake to take the ship’s propulsion design in this direction. It’s like having the fuel flow of your car, piped through the middle of the car’s passenger area. That’s just a bad design idea.
It might have been accomplished for the “Star Trek – Phase II” series idea, but I say you can’t retro-fit it into the original Constitution-class design in the early 23rd century, as though it were always there. Those warp engines were meant to be “self-contained non-networked warp drive engines”.
By the way, I support Franz Joseph’s design that had Main Engineering (Impulse Engineering) in the back of the primary hull saucer section. There was a smaller one, (seen in the earlier “Star Trek – TOS series) which was suppose to be the “Warp drive Engineering” area. The Constitution-class ships were operated from the saucer, and in the event of a saucer-separation, then the “Warp drive Engineering” section would be used, along with the Secondary Bridge located in the Secondary hull.
Also, I DO like the idea of a new secondary hull for the NX-class starships. But it should be all for increasing the ship’s complement, adding more cargo holds, supporting the primary hull, and adding a decent-sized shuttlebay. It shouldn’t be intertwined with warp-plasma conduits and vertical shaft openings in the decks. It seems like a disasterous atmospheric depressurization could happen at any time, during a battle. Like having the control panels explode needlessly, and killing off the crew members suddenly. Circuit breakers would solve that problem. If it’s just for drama, then there should be a reason for it.