Star Trek question!

[SiD the Turtle]

Another question.
If you look at the Klingon ships, Romulan, Vulcan, Ferengi, whichever. Then look at the Federations, why do the Federation ships need to be the same bloody design all the time? Do their designers get a kick out of making the same bloody ship every time?

I mean look at all previous versions of the Enterprise.
Then look at Voyager.
Look at any other Federation ship.

They mostly consist of a head, a body and two legs for the warp thing.
What is that about?

Technically most of the races have ships that all look similar. The Klingons for example, have about a million variants on the Bird of Prey, some many times the size of the original. Same with the Romulans, Ferengi etc. The all follow a design ethic. Imagine building a car. Getting the design right, the weight balance, all the things that make a car go. Then for the next one, saying that we've already had a car with four wheels, we need one with six now! I'd assume that each race has found a design which works for their requirements, and then tweaked it over the years. An exception would be something like the Defiant, which has a very different operational role to the rest of the fleet.

 

[Garp]

It's funny how the LCARS menu system that the federation use is just a set of coloured buttons that flash, no idea how they understand what's going on with it.

"Hmm that yellow button blinked red twice, that must mean a temporal anonomly has opened up 20,000 km off the port bow."

However in some episodes they had a viewscreen whilst working, but a lot of the time they stare at coloured lights and can see complex readings.

Watch out for the number 47

http://www.audiograffiti.com.au/47/

 

[iCraig]

Watch out for the number 47

http://www.audiograffiti.com.au/47/

Haha, whoever made that site is the personification of 'having too much time on your hands.'