[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Knight Templar

Nope, Star Trek are rather small actually, especially to FS standards. The Sovereign class is only 744 meters long. Enterprise (nx-01) is 265 meters I think.

it's because FS are stupidly HUGE, anyway. And dont' get me started on crew complements.

[Knight Templar]

Maybe each officer gets a luxury suite?

[Killfrenzy]

Or maybe the technology takes up most of the room? I mean, how big is a Beam Cannon anyway?

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Well, look at the Colossus cuscene, where it says "Twelve beam cannons" and you get a little rotating 3d vuew of one. I'd say that the length of the cannon is about 1.5 times the width of the projector (the calibre if you like), so AAA beams wont take up much room.
However, the targeting systems, cooling circuits and power generators will.

[Nuclear1]

Me likes it.

Reminds me of the dropship from Aliens in a way.

[Katalyan]

on the subject of beam cannons, they are obviously large, as the colossus had 12, and when firing at "full" in the fight with the sathanas, they were complaining of heat sinks taking abuse... so they obviously create huge amounts of heat.  just a thought...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

The heat sinks would have to be 100 light years across, and held in a black hole, like the flare-riders in the Hitchhiker's Guide.

[Knight Templar]

.

Each day i'm reminded of how much I should read that book...

[Petrarch of the VBB]

You mean you haven't read it already, KT? You haven't lived. You can get the entire trilogy of five ( ) for about £10-£20 these days.

[Knight Templar]

Well I woulda got it while I was in canada ( ) but I only had $80 or so on me, so I went with Rainbow Six instead