Does having more nacelles do anything?

[Star Trek Voyager]

i assk this because most ships have 2...but reading somethings, i saw a future Galaxy Class with a third warp nacelle...and the promethius class has 4... whats the difference?

[PrankishSmart]

[Tremiles]

the more nacells the less stress on the individual nacell.

[Krall]

so if you had ten,you could go faster with less were and tear on necells?
How fast could you go before you riped a hole in time?

[Tremiles]

warp 10 is the fastest you could go, it is infanit volocity, at warp ten you could go inywere you wanted in less then 1 sec. I think that at warop ten you also break thrue the time barier as well. SO FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO POST THAT YOUR SHIPS GO WARP 15 Or 32 OR ANYTHING ABOVE TEN, IT IS IMPOSIBLE TO GO ABOVE INFINENT SO QUIT SAYING IT.

[PrankishSmart]

[Tremiles]

Thank you for the reeding, it was very interesting, but it is what I said, warp only gose up to ten, after that it is transwarp to 20, then there is a second transwarp speed from 20-30, but the ship dosent actualy go warp thirteen, it gose transwarp 3, also no ship has gone faster then transwarp meaning that warp 32 is still too fast and should not be alowed to be posted.

[Hitomi]

Nice site, that www.ditl.org

anyway, and I'm only going on what I've heard with this, remember how Picard described the stargazer as underpowered? It has four nacells, but it has a fairly low top speed. Also, for the prometheus, as well as a couple other ships ive seen, I thought the rules were that you could only have an even number of nacells
I dont know....maybe the rules got rewritten while I wasn't looking.....

[Tremiles]

It is harder to align od number nacels but it hapens, some ships only have one nacel.

[Hitomi]

And how does that work? In order to generate a workable warp field, you need at least two nacells. The warp field forms between the nacells, so how can it form when tere is only one?

[Tremiles]

The one nacel projects 4 curved beams two meet above the nacell, two below, They conect there to create the warp bubble, but I don't know what makes the beems curve.

[Zeke Zabertini]

The number of warp nacells does affect things minorly, but mostly it's just a question of design or practicality (See PrankishSmart's post on the Prometheus).

[Jeff Miller]

I think it does because the more nacelles you have the more power you can atain and the better weapons you can use

[Zeke Zabertini]

[PrankishSmart]

having more nacelles does not do anything, however, if the nacell size to ship size ratio size is bigger, the ship will go faster, and hold it for longer times. look at the difference between the galaxy and sovereign. the nacells on the sovereign are huge for the size of the ship.

[Chinesetrekkie]

[IntrepidIsMe]

[Zeke Zabertini]

[Hitomi]

It's probably better to compare starships to aircraft carriers or battleships of today. The bigger the propeller and the more powerfull the engine, the more water you can push past the rudder. The more powerfull your engine is, the more turning power you have.

[Captain Matt UssVoyager]

yes it does it will make the ship go faster

[excel55]

first off tremiles is a moron. you can travel faster than warp 10. They don't put a lot of necelles because it probebly be more expensive so you don't really see a lot of ships with more than 2

[voyagerlr]

[Hyper]

About the warp 10 arguement

Helmsman, go to warp nine point nine nine nine nine nine three

Helmsman, go to warp thirteen

Make sense?
I used to think that the majority of sci-fi, trek inparticular, watchers had anabove average IQ rating....dont disprove my theory, use your nouse!

[Los]

Read the other posts about warp 10 and such. There are valid explanations for it, whether or not you believe its canon fodder.

[Hyper]

Warp 10 is infinite speed. Warp 10 will never be reached, otherwise the universe would implode. The reason they travel at warp 13 is because they have re-calibrated the warp scale to prevent saying warp 9.99993 etc etc.