About the USS Venture and those extra phaser emitters on the nacelles... Yeah, how exactly did that work?
If you don't know what I'm referring to, here's a picture of the ship in question:
Does anyone know HOW exactly those phaser emitters on the nacelles would work WITHOUT seriously interfering with the normal operations of those nacelles?
It's a foregone conclusion that the phasers won't be firing when the ship is at warp but, how are they transmitting the phaser energy to those emitters? It can't be through the Power Transfer Conduits coming from the Dilithium Crystal chamber in Main Engineering...
There must have been quite an extensive refit to get the necessary EPS power taps to that part of the ship... The pre-existing ones probably would have been a little too busy powering the warp coils. That, and you don't want there to be a place where the plasma energy supplying those coils can be bled off when the ship is trying to travel at warp. That would be bad. As in 'nacelles probably explode and take the ship with it' kinda bad...
Anyway, if somebody knows, please tell me. Memory Alpha hasn't been overly helpful. I'd hate to think it was done only to make the ship look even more bad-ass... Or just because the model used for Venture in DS9 was a re-use of the Enterprise-D model from TNG after it was modified for the future scenes in All Good Things...
- Lord Publius
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