That may be. But we have seen basically brand new nacelle designs for every single ship. New warp nacelle design means different warp coil shape. That nacelle probably has different properties and performance requirements than the others.GrahamKennedy wrote:It could well be that the Dominion war gave them the impetus to build a whole new set of shipyards and production facilities.McAvoy wrote:The warp coils in the nacellea an excellent point and perhaps that is why nacelle designs seem to be reused even if for example the GCS nacelle design may be reused but at reduced scale and different proportions.
However it seems that they have stopped doing that as pretty much every new ship past First Contact has a new nacelle design. Which means new coil shape or design.
Unless of course they layer like fabric or plywood and then cut it.
For them to ramp up the production and make enough of these coils without slowing down shipyard production, they would have to drastically increase production or drastically alter the way they produce the coils.
It would be the equivalent of the USN building new destroyer classes with a different propulsion method (gas turbine, steam turbine, nuclear, etc) for each class and build them at the same time along with a similar proportions of cruiser and carrier classes.