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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8973864" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>While space is pretty much vacuum, it still contains some stuff - radiation, random particles, the occassional micro-asteroid. And while it's very, very little, starships in Star Trek really fly fast, and all that stuff adds up. I might be just enough that if you fly at warp, it's cooler if you can reduce your cross-section against that a bit. If you consider that the deflector dish's job is to protect ships from that stuff, it makes sense to reduce the amount of surface it needs to protect.</p><p></p><p>Also, from a tactical perspective, if you chase someone, someone is chasing you, or you are intercepting them so they don't get from A to B, the front and the rear are probably the most and longest exposed to enemy weapon fire. If they come at you from the sides, you better turn towards them to fly past as quickly or possible, or turn away from them to fly away as quickly as possible. So it might be nice to lower your front and rear profiles as well.</p><p></p><p>There might also be reasons in the fictional mechanics of the warp drive that might make it desirable to be more "streamlined" - or maybe it's actually technological advancement that allows better streamlining (because you can make your warp bubble more enongated and still have it tightly around the ship, keeping it efficient) for the benefit of the aforementioned factors.</p><p></p><p>Of course, on the out-of-universe reason is - streamlining is an easy visual tell for people to identify something as "faster" or "more advanced".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 8973864, member: 710"] While space is pretty much vacuum, it still contains some stuff - radiation, random particles, the occassional micro-asteroid. And while it's very, very little, starships in Star Trek really fly fast, and all that stuff adds up. I might be just enough that if you fly at warp, it's cooler if you can reduce your cross-section against that a bit. If you consider that the deflector dish's job is to protect ships from that stuff, it makes sense to reduce the amount of surface it needs to protect. Also, from a tactical perspective, if you chase someone, someone is chasing you, or you are intercepting them so they don't get from A to B, the front and the rear are probably the most and longest exposed to enemy weapon fire. If they come at you from the sides, you better turn towards them to fly past as quickly or possible, or turn away from them to fly away as quickly as possible. So it might be nice to lower your front and rear profiles as well. There might also be reasons in the fictional mechanics of the warp drive that might make it desirable to be more "streamlined" - or maybe it's actually technological advancement that allows better streamlining (because you can make your warp bubble more enongated and still have it tightly around the ship, keeping it efficient) for the benefit of the aforementioned factors. Of course, on the out-of-universe reason is - streamlining is an easy visual tell for people to identify something as "faster" or "more advanced". [/QUOTE]
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