I'm fairly sure the Sovereign has, at a minimum, a sideways strip across the bottom of the engineering hull, and I remember reading that a couple more were added in addition to the slight change of nacelle position before Nemesis, all as retcons rather than refits. The point, though, was somewhere a small ship could sit and be out-of-arc, not how safe it is for said small shi to be there - close in over the engineering hull may do it on a Galaxy (I'd have to check, and why would I want to?) but Sovereigns have a couple of short strips aft on the suacer that could hit even there.
I think a better question would be if we've ever seen anything but the dorsal or ventral main bank on the saucer used by ANY starfleet ship...
RE fighters vs. small ships, I think the surviveaility argument would be the most persuasive to 24th century thinkers - what's a little more money if it saves lives? To their morally advanced civilization, which pretends to be evolved beyond money except to trade with non-Federation members?
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I think a better question would be if we've ever seen anything but the dorsal or ventral main bank on the saucer used by ANY starfleet ship...
RE fighters vs. small ships, I think the surviveaility argument would be the most persuasive to 24th century thinkers - what's a little more money if it saves lives? To their morally advanced civilization, which pretends to be evolved beyond money except to trade with non-Federation members?
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows