Ship of the week: Nebula

Post by **Mikey** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:09 am

I happen to have a nice chianti...

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:41 am

Mikey wrote:I happen to have a nice chianti...

Now all we need is a census taker.

Bryan Moore · Post by **Bryan Moore** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:44 am

I'M GOING RUNNING! TEDDY BEAR! SNEEZING! ROCKING HORSE!

Anything else off topic that needs to be said?

Question:

What's the first use of the Nebula in the series? I know the Phoenix is the first we see in detail, but is there a Nebula floating around at Wolf 359?

kostmayer · Post by **kostmayer** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:55 am

They showed them in battle at Wolf 359 at the beginning of DS9, but I doubt one was among the wreckage they showed during Best of Both Worlds - the ship probably hadn't been thought up by then.

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:20 am

kostmayer wrote:They showed them in battle at Wolf 359 at the beginning of DS9, but I doubt one was among the wreckage they showed during Best of Both Worlds - the ship probably hadn't been thought up by then.

There sort of was one, off the top of my head. But it had two smaller nacelles in place of the mission pod. Who knows what's up with that.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:02 am

Maybe it's a variant designed to go at faster speeds? Given the haste in which the Wolf fleet was assembled, such a fast ship would make sense there.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:04 am

It could be a test bed ship. Simply testing different configurations of the Nebula.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:16 am

Possible.

Jordanis · Post by **Jordanis** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:36 pm

I somehow doubt that strapping on more nacelles will yield much speed gain, or else Starfleet would be awash in four and six and eight-nacelle ships. I tend to favor the idea that it extends the 'maximum rated' time, because the ship can use one set of nacelles, then the other.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:40 pm

*shrug*
It was just an idea.

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:02 pm

It was most likely just a (POS) kitbash for the episode.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:05 pm

Well, true. But what does it do in-universe?

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:11 pm

I tend to agree with the idea that extra nacelles increase the life of the warp coils byt putting less stress on each one.

Thsi process may certainly have the happy side-effect of increasing the average possible speed over a long term.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:14 pm

They, on outward chance, may have been testing a new way of keeping quad-nacelle ships in one piece. The Constellation seemed to suffer from lack of power and Structeral stress. Perhaps the Nebula we saw was carrying a new method of strengthening the hull

Deepcrush · Post by **Deepcrush** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:36 pm

I would much rather an advanced weapons pod on my nebula.