The booty on the “Nemesis” era E:
I never knew there was a difference. Is it just the nacelle placement and the little “hump” just aft of the saucer?
form drag is proportional to:
- The denisty of the medium.
- The velocity of the moving body (squared).
Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3…
However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much
This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.
So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can’t complain, and I’m pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.
I hate that I just sat and did a spot the difference on these images. I feel like I am propping up a stereotype.
Bottom ship doesn’t have the same body profile on the bottom of the main body (engineering?)
The three things I spotted were hangar bay has a fin type thing above it, there’s an extra bit on the rear of the “neck” from saucer to engineering hill and the position and rake of the pylons is shorter on the Nemesis version which brings the nacelles forward a touch and opens up the rear of the engineering hill a bit.
I will not accept this travesty!
I didn’t know until this post. Interesting.
Same. That said, I vastly prefer the First Contact/Insurrection version. It’s clearly superior in every way.
