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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
They could easily be multi-armed centrifuges for an extremely high artifical G-Force. Virtual G's used in a tractor/repulsor beam, or maybe a WMG? Those kind of things you'd need to keep on the outside anyways.
The wings are so you can bank left, then turn right, catching the enemy by surprise 
The tower could be for the sensitive equipment/supplies/etc that need to be kept isolated from the main hull for security or safety reasons.
[ 20 December 2001: Message edited by: suicide_junkie ]
This is a little OT, but a good place to point this out. The beauty of sci-fi is that the elements of a ship can have
whatever function you want. If it doesn't make sense, you make something up. They do this in all kinds of sci-fi, but I think Star Trek is the worst culprit: the Enterprise will be surrounded by about six hundred borg ships with all its shields gone. Instead of throwing up his hands and saying "well, we're screwed" Picard will ask Geordi for advice, and Geordi will save the day by
making up entirely new scientific facts, something along the lines of "Well, if we reroute a depolarized tachyon field through the subspace isometric plasma conduits, it might just completely paralyze the whole Borg hive mind." And then Picard says "make it so".
Now don't get me wrong; I eat that stuff up. But my point is that the writers of Star Trek don't know a real tachyon particle from a hole in the ground, and as long as it
soundssophisticated and futuristic it might as well be real. When the whole universe is imaginary you can make up things as you please
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