• Steve@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    For a ship that never needs aerodynamic control, any shape at all will do so why do they all look like airplanes?

    The Borg are the only ones who seem to get this.

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      1 year ago

      Not a trekkie, do they ever land in atmosphere on these ships? You would want aerodynamics for that to reduce drag and thus heat, but I’m not familiar enough to know.

      I guess they probably have good thermal protections with their future tech, though.

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        1 year ago

        Voyager does a few times. The Enterprise D did…once.

        There are some alternate timeline shenanigans I will not speak of here.