At least SOME of the
Constitution-Bs reuse old
Constitution-A nacelles. There may be modifications done to some of the internal machinery, and some of the
Constitution-Bs may be using new-built nacelles. It's entirely possible that there are Flight I and Flight II
Constitution-Bs.
If so, Flight I would be the "first four" (
Lexington, Hood, Republic, and
Korolev, the ones we saved 40 SR each on), and at most one or two of the others. They'd be reusing the 'A' nacelles that were still serviceable from the wrecked-in-mothballs
Constitution-As. The first four were picked because they had two serviceable nacelles and a serviceable warp core to reuse. Subsequent ConnieBees would probably need to get the nacelles and warp core from at least two different ships (say, using
Intrepid's starboard nacelle and the port nacelle and warp core from, oh,
Exeter). Or using spares that were originally placed in storage at the end of the
Constitution-A production run and never re-used.
Potemkin was ordered to be left untouched, probably because SOMEBODY had a hair-brained scheme to send the ship out as a "fake Connie."
Enterprise-A was ordered to be left untouched, with an eye to use as a museum ship, but damage from Chang's attack in '93 might have made some of the parts unsalvageable anyway.
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Meanwhile, any subsequent
Constitution-B builds would be of the "Flight II" type. They'd use new-build nacelles containing a varying proportion of the components of the old originals. That would include the ConnieBees being built by some of the member world fleets. And those might look more like Ato's drawing.
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The deflector dishes are new, but look close enough to identical that Uhura needed a minute to tell the difference- so using movie Connie looks for that is perfectly reasonable. The hullform of the saucer and engineering hulls should be just about identical to the
Constitution-A, even though the hulls themselves had to be rebuilt- because they were rebuilt to the
Constituion-A blueprints.
However, there were some changes to internal layout. For example, if we go by my recent
Old Voices, New Vigor omake, the
Constitution-A bridge modules were recycled, so the bridge of a ConnieBee looks pretty much exactly like the
Enterprise bridge from Star Trek VI. But with 2310-vintage computers replacing 2270-vintage computers, there was extra space in the bridge module for the captain to have a ready room near the bridge- there's no evidence that the Connies ever had ready rooms before.
And I wouldn't be surprised if some of the changes are actually idiosyncratic, depending on what parts were or were not available from which series. There might be a ConnieBee or two for which some of the internal furnishings are actually TOS-era, for instance, rather than movie-era. Or in parts of the ship, more modern, TNG-looking interiors may have been used new-built, depending on what was available and when.
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Also, here are the statlines under consideration, based on Oneiros's retcon
Constitution(TOS)
_ C3 S3 H3 L2 P4 D4
Constitution-A
____C4 S3 H3 L3 P4 D5
Constitution-B
____C5 S3 H3 L4 P3 D5
Blooded Connie-A
_C5 S4 H4 L4 P5 D5 <---- This was
Cheron's statline at game start
Elite Connie (TOS)
_C6 S6 H6 L5 P7 D4 <---- TOS
Enterprise's statline
Compare to
Excelsior
________ C6 S5 H4 L5 P5 D6
And you now see why the
Excelsiors were such a big deal.
