Lorna
Lieutenant Commander
I never said anything of the sort, but you could build one. It's just going to have the runabout shape, the inside will be different.
The Federations Need For Multiple Ship Classes
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I never said anything of the sort, but you could build one. It's just going to have the runabout shape, the inside will be different.
the kitbashes were fugly and i can't believe they seriously tried to explain them away as just welding engines and saucers together to make a ship to get into battle. it's ludicrous, considering the TNG Manual - BY THE SAME AUTHORS - goes on at length about the 20-odd year design process for the Galaxy class and how important it is to get your warp field geometry right and your engines balanced and everything.
the only one that looked any cop was the USS Centaur from A Time to Stand
the only one that looked any cop was the USS Centaur from A Time to Stand
Presumably, they figured out how to make the warp engines work well enough to get the ships in and out of combat zones.
Indeed, this would be a good way to extend the obvious analogy to the Normandy invasion: all sorts of special gear was designed for that one, including "funnies" that would operate on the beach and special ships that would get them to the beach. Those special ships were built while fully acknowledging that they'd have piss-poor seakeeping, infernally insufficient speed and sometimes an expected structural lifetime measured in days. Some of the DS9 ships might thus well be of that nature.
However, the people who put these things together took the time and care to give most of them names and registries. And save for the Intrepid with Constitution nacelles, the registries plausibly match the "era of the components", supporting rather than undermining the idea that registries are roughly chronological. All of the registries also predate, say, the Defiant or the Voyager. Plenty of time for Starfleet to design and build these ship classes the usual way.
Timo Saloniemi
However, the people who put these things together took the time and care to give most of them names and registries. And save for the Intrepid with Constitution nacelles, the registries plausibly match the "era of the components", supporting rather than undermining the idea that registries are roughly chronological. All of the registries also predate, say, the Defiant or the Voyager. Plenty of time for Starfleet to design and build these ship classes the usual way.
Timo Saloniemi
I believe it's pronounced "QFT".
Although I think the Curry Class could work with Excelsior-era nacelles. I really like its different-ness.
granted, that one's not too bad, and neither's the saucer-neck-two nacelles one which never appeared on screen. looks a bit like some of FJ's designs...
I like the theory that the Curry is a transport for Starfleet Marines. The forward slung secondary hull could be a barracks, left behind at a drop site while the rear portion of the ship warps away...
As for class, I have heard it called Shelley class, which I also like. Named after Mary Shelley, and meant to evoke the Frankenstein-like appearance of the ship.
As for class, I have heard it called Shelley class, which I also like. Named after Mary Shelley, and meant to evoke the Frankenstein-like appearance of the ship.
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