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So I have read one of my all time favorite novels - Star Trek Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions - and I have been actually fascinated about the Jaunt ships, such as the new starship Enterprise. What has been described about the ship seems to suggest to me a Vulcan-esque type of ship, something like the D'Kyr class, but with nacelles attached to the ring. Can anyone confirm, deny and/or corroborate on this?
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No I can't, but confirm and corroborate mean the same thing.
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I like the term though.
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I like it too, but it sounds so... British! :D
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I like it too, but it sounds so... British! :D
It would be even "British-er" if they used the old nautical term "jolly boat."
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Mikey wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I like it too, but it sounds so... British! :D
It would be even "British-er" if they used the old nautical term "jolly boat."
That's a jolly good idea to be called a jolly boat. :D
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Well I have personally corresponded with the author of the novel, David Mack himself, via email and he had given me a pretty good picture of what the Enterprise looks like, as he is quoted as saying, and I quote, "Picture a long needle-nosed fuselage surrounded by a wide, flat ring, with the ring connected to the needle fuselage by three pylons, each 120° apart from the others. Similar in some ways to early Vulcan starships."

So I have sent him an image of something that I put together on paint (let's keep the laughter to a minimum, I know this isn't exactly art or expert drawing), and he is then quoted as saying, "Not quite, but a good start." So here is what I have.

http://mestes17.deviantart.com/art/Free ... -617425380
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Isn't that the ship from TMP Enterprise wall?
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McAvoy wrote:Isn't that the ship from TMP Enterprise wall?
Actually it's more like one of the early Vulcan ships from Star Trek Enterprise - with one exception: the needle shaped fuselage is connected to the ring BY the nacelles
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Are there actual nacelles? He describes a ring connected by pylons, but doesn't mention nacelles on those pylons.
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What's the point of the ring then if it has nacelles?
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Graham Kennedy wrote:Are there actual nacelles? He describes a ring connected by pylons, but doesn't mention nacelles on those pylons.
Yes, he specifically said that warp nacelles were attached to the ring. The nacelles themselves were attached to the needle nosed hull.
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McAvoy wrote:What's the point of the ring then if it has nacelles?
Because the ring itself contains the wormhole generator - or jaunt drive - that allows it to create the wormholes. Think of the Bajoran wormhole, but artificially generated.
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