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Originally Posted by Ithekro
The producers say intakes. We assume like to take either free hydrogen as fuel or maybe tachyons or something for their wave motion engines.
On the battleships, battlecruiser, and submarines they looks more like intakes with grills over the front while the older style ships seem to be open.
The production staff said they are dark when the ship is powered down, green when cruising and the more traditional orange-yellow glow when powered for combat. They suggest it is so that their enemies know when they mean to fight.
The carriers don't have noticable "eyes" on them anyplace.
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They took that from star trek.
Glad to see they did too.
In the old star trek, the warp nacelle "ram-scoops" for hydrogen (the red tips) were grey when the engines were not in use.
Yellow when at idle.
And red when they were active.
Well...that's how they were supposed to be shown in the series, but just like the phasers and photons, the special effects staff didn't always get it right.
