Comments on: Starship Profile: DY-100 Savannah class

By: Nguyet Nila

Nguyet Nila — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:13:15 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:23:00 +0000

Cool! Re: artificial gravity, I always just assumed that Khan and his Augments designed the Botany Bay (A.G., nuclear propulsion and all) and that after the war we just reverse engineered their technology. (Kinda like we did with nazi Germany after WWII.)

By: jimbo

jimbo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:52:09 +0000

how do we know if they had gravity, they migth just have mag boots like in undiscovered country.
(i know they didnt have floppy hair that goes with wieght loss. lol)
or a rotating middle to there ship!
there plenty to go on.

ps nice site like it.

By: shipfisher

shipfisher — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:55:02 +0000

We only ever see “cryo-sleep” vehicles with what appears to be artificial gravity in the 1990’s (ie. including the “SS Birdseye” cryo-sat.). A pet theory of mine has these ships requiring a “polar-pulse” grid system in the cryo-bays to interact with polar water molecules and help prevent tissue damaging ice crystal formation in “cryo-nauts”. A side benefit would be ramping the system up, when required, to charge/polarize anything with water in it (ie. people) and use EM repulsion forces to push it against the deck.
You can then put off the intro of actual graviton based systems by several decades at least, which seems easier to believe.

By: AlexR

AlexR — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:04:48 +0000

re artificial gravity… Isn’t there a bit of fanon floating about, going back perhaps to the Mandel era, that humans figured out gravity control technology (and, presumably, the Grand Unified Theory that eludes us today, but that a lot of Trek’s tech seems to be based upon) from studying a flying belt found in a Slaver stasis box on the moon…in the late 20th Century? My memory may be trickin’ me, but I seem to recall some speculation that said box was found by one of the last Apollo crews (the ones that, in Trek’s world, *weren’t* cancelled by the Nixon Administration!), which could be consistent with DY-100 class vessels having artificial gravity by the 1990s.

Just some thoughts…

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:23:47 +0000

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By: Harry Doddema

Harry Doddema — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:12:56 +0000

Re: Artificial gravity. This is a bit of a strange one. I’m of two thoughts: either we ignore it for sake of plausibility…. or we chalk it up to some ‘black project’. Remember, this ship comes from a world where the US launched orbital nukes in the 1960s, and where genetically superior humans ruled over a quarter of the Earth… anything could happen

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:54:24 +0000

I’ve been off-and-on fooling around with ideas of how a DY-100 could be built with 1990s technology. Then I discovered Google’s Sketchup and could actually work out details and layout in three dimensions. I see you came to some of the same conclusions as I did (modular construction, units launched atop in-line launch vehicles, etc). I’m thinking in the next few months as I get closer to a finished product I’ll see if I can’t self-publish manual. It’s been fun trying to fit the layout of the “Space Seed” set into the body, and then the look I was shooting for started to lean towards “Space 1999″ and “2001.” Once I get some decent images, I’ll share them.

Jeff

P.S. Love your DY logo.

By: geoff daum

geoff daum — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:01:00 +0000

Yep – I would agree with that.. Thanks for the line.

By: Dan Carlson

Dan Carlson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:42:25 +0000

Nice! But how do you explain the onboard artificial gravity?