I always thought so but can’t find where I may have read that from… maybe just an assumption I made because it looks like it and they are often used in science/sensor roles
The design upgrades for the Nebula-class were done by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach and the model was built by Greg Jein. In Drexler’s blog, Okuda elaborated further: "As so often happens with this kind of project, we didn’t give Greg enough time to accomplish this, so we decided to retain the original scale of the Galaxy-class ship saucer. I suggested the original ‘AWACS’ pod in response to a producer’s observation that the ship might otherwise appear unbalanced. Unfortunately, the AWACS pod didn’t look as elegant as we had hoped in “The Wounded”.
Wasn’t the inspiration for this also the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye since they’re meant to be science craft with large sensor arrays?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye
I have no idea, but that would definitely be plausible.
I always thought so but can’t find where I may have read that from… maybe just an assumption I made because it looks like it and they are often used in science/sensor roles
Found it. The AWACS.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nebula_class_model