so you want a squishy ship that has lots of teeth, but no speed........

NX-999999 "Sitting Duck"

I think there's more that could be done while staying true to the saucer and nacelle sort of shindig. I think a ship with "over/under" nacelles and a nose mounted deflector could be pretty cool, sort of like a cross between a Stargazer and Excalibur in game, I'd imagine it'd work best as a science or escort ship.

The mess in my view is that they decide when they rules should apply.
Oh I dunno...A bit totalitarian or whatever? :p By all means have the rules(still prefer to call them guidelines) but do have some consistency as well.



Challenger? It's a lovely ship.

Whats wrong with the U.S.S. Kelvin? I thought it was the coolest looking ship for a one naceller

Very well, one nacelle is out?
Then let's use the circular nacelle(s) of the D'Kyr!

/getting slight stress headpains
I think I don´t like you anymore. :p

The Vulcan version is actually a completely different way to generate a warp field than the dual nacelle method.
Rademacher´s Ringship from the SotL calender is a great model to show us Earth´s early experiments with that propulsion method. They obviously went for the nacelles.

Hate to tell you, but Mark Rademaker didn't create that concept. He simply brought an old Matt Jefferies concept to life.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(XCV_330)

I'd like to see Cryptic get back to doing things that people actually want, rather than setting themselves up as a Lottery Commission.

You, things like:

More New Ships and Ship Costumes, that don't come in grab bags, boxes or whatever.

More New Interiors (Properly Scaled of course)

More New Bridges (Properly Scaled of course)

More New Uniforms

More New Weapon Skins

More New Trophies and filling in the Old trophy gaps. (Ship Models for example)

If they are going to be so heavily focused on the C-Store, then for crying out loud, at least make things that people want, and not make them frickin lotto boxes.

Yes, let's have some 1 nacelle ships. And more 3 nacelle ships. And more 2 and 4 nacelle ships.

The Franz Joseph tech manual occupies an interesting place in Trek lore and canonicity. It's been 'officiallly' removed from canon and yet, (like the Animated Series) it remained in print for all this time. Aside from a few shoutouts to it in TMP (a dreadnought schematic appears when V'Ger is reading the ship's databanks, and the name and hull number of the Hermes-class scout USS Columbia are mentioned) it has not been referenced in any "official" Trek canon. This further muddies what is or is not canon and what is or is not 'official.'

A shame, too. I really liked the tech manual.

No. You just can't take them with a grain of salt. Regardless of the reasons, they appear on screen however small or obscure. The fact that fans have gone to great lengths to view screen grabs of those scenes to tease out any detail of the wreck should tell you that it matters. Even after the show went off of the air. Fans went to conventions and talked with the art department folks about any details of those wrecks.