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I never knew there was a difference. Is it just the nacelle placement and the little "hump" just aft of the saucer?
Docking bay also sticks out more in the back in the Nemesis version
Nemesis Enterprise got booty.
I like big docks and I cannot lie
That's only because the nacelle pylons moved forward a little and got wider.
It's a fin on the top, for aerodynamics
Also those racing stripes make it look real sharp
I may not be a smart person, but aerodynamics.. in space?
form drag is proportional to:
Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3...
However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much
This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.
So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can't complain, and I'm pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.
I have no grounds to question anything that you said, but all I can imagine is this image.
Moving mass towards the center to reduce rotational inertia and increase manoeuvrability! Little changes can bring great improvements in space battles.
checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they're all extremely minor and there's lots of them.