- Location
- California
It's supposed to be a sort of electrically-charged ceramic, but it's just treated as a shield instead of anything interesting. They don't even need to repair the plates after they go "offline".
Starship Design Bureau
- Thread starter Sayle
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
Linked contents
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
After the Voyager incident, the SDB's next ship was designed to last an entire Century outside a dockyard if needed.
Since we're heading to a new era and all the prototype refinement we crammed into the Century aren't going to be available anymore, I'd like to bring back up the idea of making our first ship of the trio/however many the one overly loaded down with prototypes and experimental equipment, instead of the last. That way by the time the later ships are getting developed a lot of the kinks will have been worked out and we can slap in all the cutting edge tech on the big ship without making 10 different prototype rolls.
- Location
- west
Talk about optimistic.
I feel vaguely that the first ship of the line IS overly loaded with prototypes. The NX-prototype ships are a cross between experimental human tech and what crumbs Vulcan gave them.
(In defense of Vulcan: They put *Archer* in charge of the NX-01. *Archer*)
- Location
- Australia
It was the first vessel launched by United Earth able to reach warp 5. The main problem with the ship is that it was launched early due to plot reasons, so unless we find another way to return the injured Klingon to the Empire there's no way to avoid it.
Eventually it and the rest of the remaining NX class vessels get refit to the much better Columbia class, but until then it suffers from being a low-tech Earth ship designed before the Earth-Romulan War.
Don't see why we can't have both. Canonically before the NX-class was designed, UE had the Emmette type and the Intrepid type ships that they kept on making and using.
- Location
- Most likely California
We all know that the new ship will also have even newer shiny prototypes as options, which we will inevidently also pick, so both ships will be disasters overloaded with experimental prototypes.
Sequel Thread
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
it would probably be a good idea to threadmark this
Good catch, this should now be done.
There's also a neat little toggle thingie in the thread header that @Xon created which allows you to flick between the two quests.
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DON'T PANIC
- Location
- Present
- Location
- United States
For a moment I was just so confused just checking watched threads and suddenly seeing a new thread I don't recall watching. Plus some other things involving it. This explains it though.
Neat.
- Location
- alphen aan den rijn
so is this tread dead then? or its doing it own thing!