Re: Super Transportation
I recently did a couple of Early Warp-era starships using the assumption that, since the Vulcans' warp drive vessels used a torus-shaped drive system (in ST: Enterprise, anyway), the engineers on Earth might adopt the design for a while, assuming it has superior characteristics to a pair of long, relatively thin nacelles. In my own imagination, the vulcans chose this design hundreds of years ago as it had proved to be the least problematic configuration. While it can be used to make fast vessels like the Dkyr class and the Suraak class vessels, it has its limitations, and it becomes increasingly difficult (and possibly dangerous) to coax speeds beyond Warp 6.5 from this configuration.