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Perhaps I am not the first one who has asked the question: why did they designed the starships of the Federation in this particular way?
A saucer as primary hull and a cylinder shaped secondary hull above one another.
It makes the ship more vulnerable to enemy fire and travelling with warp speed.
Nowadays we are used to see them on the screen, but when you take a new look at them, as I have done lately, while working on a ship from the Constitution class from TOS, I started thinking about it.
The other races or empires use designs that are more logical to me: a more narrow front and a wider rearend like the Klingons and the Dominion. The exception here are the Cardassian ships.
I’d like to hear the opinion of others.
A saucer as primary hull and a cylinder shaped secondary hull above one another.
It makes the ship more vulnerable to enemy fire and travelling with warp speed.
Nowadays we are used to see them on the screen, but when you take a new look at them, as I have done lately, while working on a ship from the Constitution class from TOS, I started thinking about it.
The other races or empires use designs that are more logical to me: a more narrow front and a wider rearend like the Klingons and the Dominion. The exception here are the Cardassian ships.
I’d like to hear the opinion of others.