LUV THAT DISRUPTOR BAK

Yeah I know this thread is dead, but concerning the Defiant's lack of warp nacells:

Warp nacells are Starfleet's way of making extremely maneuverable ships, basically it's a stack of warp coils on end, like a solenoid.

Defiant's aren't maneuverable at warp, since they're designed to be escort fighters (anti-borg and anti-dominion mostly) for colonists and freighters. Since both types of ships have no warp or very slow warp it's not a problem. Also, since combat always occurs at impulse the defiant doesn't need anything fancy under the hood, so to speak.

Of course all this presupposes that anyone at DS9 knew or cared about "warp mechanics" and why combat never occurs at warp (one phaser or disruptor hit to the nacells or exhaust or whatever and the whole ship disintegrates at the subspace boundary). So whatever.

i only saw them firing torps at warpspeed. like the episode of tng with the cube and stuff

Well this ant to dead. lol dont know if it was posted but ill put in this....

I figured that the reson for the nasels being so far out was to have optimal warp field balance, (man dose my spelling stink to night or what) the nessles are centered making the field stronger.  

lol you wodnt happen to know any one named Link would you. lol he is jsut as bad, in the clan we call him our code writer. lol  

Dont forget the copout about modifications being made to phasers so they will work at warp, but one reason for outer nacels ie voyager had ajustable ones so they could greater control the waro field although it looks like it only has 2 setings warp and impulse.

all i know is that they can do anything and come up with an excuse beacuse most of this stuff is just bad science that coudlent work. Or magic?