Many of the usual Starfleet details were penciled in impulse engines, phasers, nav deflector, RCS thrusters, tractor beam emitters, and so on. One of the first 'close' blue-pencil drawings presented a dart-shaped main hull with slight winglets, plus upper and lower embedded attack craft. We knew that even small shuttle craft have warp engines, so the small attack ships would be no problem, but could small groups of coils drive the big forward hull? Would they need to be hidden to fool the bad guys? Doodles and computer sketches continued and discussions began with Foundation Imaging, as they would do the final CGI model and animation. This immediately required Prometheus to have two separate warp cores, and more likely five matter-antimatter reactors if all parts had to do combat at warp. In the sketches they would be called (strangely enough) Upper Warp Hull (UWH) and Lower Warp Hull (LWH). The aft body that is normally the engineering hull in a starship could be split easily in two horizontally, each section sporting two warp nacelles. After some early trials with the standard saucer and nacelle parts, I settled on a more streamlined style as an evolution of Voyager's lengthened nose and wing-like pylons. The script originally called for Prometheus to divide into five parts, and the first doodles and computer shape sketches attempted to fit them all together (and take them apart) with the requirement that the ship look good in both conditions, something that for various reasons was not totally realized with the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D's battle section. The Doctor was deposited aboard the new ship, which we discovered could separate into many autonomous pieces in a swarming tactic - multi-vector assault mode. The USS Prometheus NX-74913 was created for the Star Trek Voyager episode 'Message in a Bottle,' in which the Doctor's holomatrix was transmitted tens of thousands of light years (via an alien com relay) in an attempt to send word about Voyager's plight.
In the first four years that the USS Voyager NCC-74656 was occupied with escaping from Kazon warships, making hyperspatial jumps, and playing cat-and-mouse with the Borg, Starfleet Command was equally busy developing an experimental starship with some very special capabilities.
and, because of its multi-vector assault mode, it had to split into three different ships, all of which had to look suitably 'cool.' The USS Prometheus NX-74913 was supposed to represent the state of the art in Starfleet design. STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE COPYRIGHT OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES. "DESIGNING THE PROMETHEUS-CLASS" - MARCH 2003 ISSUE 45
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