Astro-potentio-actuator
The Carroll be known indeed fer its many successf'l missions, conducted mos' teroughly by its dedicated crew. But 'is engines be outdated by now, still operatin wit Astro-potentio-actuators as it's... (hang it as I check on the doc'mentation...) "customary mode of secondary thrust dynamics"... (hang it as I check on the doc'mentation...) ah! where "thrust" be th' way in which i' be move-like.
Sofar's I can tell, the Ogden be so 'dvanced it don' even need "secondary thrust dynamics" or any dolton-excess mechanic-isms. I look'd all round tae Ogden, an cannae find any movin pars ta speak of, much less somthin be hoppin aboot like some "wee barra be-geez'n a gif" (tae Lieutenant Commander's words hisself) an' we all know as trained operators tat tae bes' engine be one with the few'st moving pars.
As tae great Unitied Astronomics comp'ney describes it, th' Ogden havs'n engine built so modern "I can hardly describe t'ya how it werks," he said so hisself. (If ye be worried 'bout spellin, know that they be act'lly U-N-I-T-I-E-D, no one be knowin' 'sactly why tey choose it tat way.)
As for th' Carroll, no bet'r comparison be to 'is moder-ness than a test o'th'sort tha we did fer our own 'musement on account o'th'money put down on results. Aye, we did bet on which've our ships could perform better with Kila on tae engine, and though ya might be diss'pointed at th'loss o'samples, ya might be pleas'd ta know the Carroll's Astro-potentio-actuators locked up, while the Ogden engines purred silently onwards, faster'n before, completely lapping the Carroll in our westerly orbits, and even able to bank close to Skaoi and get close-up data on the rarely observ'd regions east of th'wall.
Montglimmery Scott, D.N.