Star Trek in KSP [spoilers allowed]

[kerbomatic]

If Star Trek was set in the Kerbal System...?

I promise this thread will be a bit different from the other threads. Also spoilers explicitly allowed.

You may conveniently ignore that there is only one Kerbal System and no warp drive.

I'll start us off:

- If Star Trek was set in the Kerbal System, I would wonder how those warp nacelles manage to balance center of mass vs. center of thrust (curses, you KSP!)

- ... I'd wonder how they get from the Mün SOI into the Kerbin SOI so fast - Sulu must be really good with those maneuver nodes.

- ... criticize the builders about how inefficiently they placed their RCS thrusters and expect to see more struts between the saucer section and the rest of the ship.

- ... Jeb would be playing Kirk (obviously)

Surely you guys can do better than this

Full disclosure: long-time Star Trek fan.

[ZedNova]

The warp nacelles are just used the create the warp field. The impulse engines are the only "real" engines, and they're right behind the Saucer, Which is probably pretty close to the COM.

The guy that made the Starship enterprise parts for KSP put the engine in the same place it's in here, and it works great in space. In the atmosphere, not so much.

[kerbomatic]

Should have known someone actually made the Enterprise in KSP I had been thinking about how close one would get using stock parts.

And indeed, the warp field does not work like linear thrust. Historically, warp nacelles have been seen practically anywhere relative to the saucer section short of ahead of the saucer. There's no reason why they couldn't be though.