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Excelsior refit Engineering

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I envision this as the Main Engineering of a final refit/rebuild of the Excelsior class (similar to the one the Connies had between TOS and the movies), sometime in the mid-late 24th century.

My visual model for the refit is DJ Curtis' Alberta class, as shown here: Alberta Class

Credits to Fact Files as always.
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Truthfully, the Enterprise's movie-era warp reactor never made sense to me.  At first glance, it looks like a garden variety vertically-stacked M/ARA.

Look closer:

Despite pulsing with power, the intermix shaft has no visible deuterium injector.  It instead terminates DIRECTLY in the impulse engine system, where it can channel plasma through the exhaust nozzles to boost thrust.

Where does the deuterium get added, if the upper half of the column is already being used as an EPS main?  And where do they react?  How the heck does that "main energizer" that Spock fixed in TWoK fit in?  And how did it work?

AAAH!  GEEKPANIC!