Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little “cool for cool’s sake” but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
Always TNG/Ent-D.
Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little “cool for cool’s sake” but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
Janeway had the best ready room. Huge windows and giant comfy couch.
Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard’s was just an office.
Never understood why voyager’s nacelles moved before warping. Seems purely aesthetic with no use other than to distinguish it.
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
Basically that. It made for good TV.
Now I’m wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.
In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.
To keep repeated warp use from destroying the fabric of spacetime, like in that episode where they talked about the warp speed limit.