Arimai
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Yup fresh graduates and the youngest officers of Starfleet's Officer Corps
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KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
I mean, we could go with another name of great human cultural significance...
[Y] UES Bad Motherfucker
[Y] UES Bad Motherfucker
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
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It's not a technological dead end. It's more like the technology of this time makes this design well-suited for it.
When you think about it, a design like the Sovereign-class only works because the technology like phaser-strips allows for a hull configuration like that to give much greater weapons coverage.
The Bulwark isn't a technological dead end because you could probably apply more advanced weaponry and even warp configurations to it and still have it kick ass. It won't be ideal, but it will still be quite effective.
What makes the Bulwark so distinctive compared to more canon ships designs is how minimalist the warp and secondary hull aspects are, but that's specifically because of the total war situation we find ourselves in. A major overhaul of the design that includes a secondary hull and some utility features could make the design less war-specialized without giving up all of the industry that went into building the saucer and warp coils.
Worth remembering that Starfleet doesn't have a lot of ships in general. Even if the Bulwark isn't ideal for postwar needs, you have to make do with what you have, and the Bulwark is going to be one hell of a defensive deterrent.
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Somewhat relevant to all this navy talk, this is apparently something the federation does \/
Federation Naval Patrol
The Federation Naval Patrol was a naval organization concerned with the patrol of Federation planets, specifically through the use of water vessels designed to patrol seas and oceans. As a result of having a childhood fascination with stories about the ocean and ancient sailing ships, Tom Paris...
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Man Voyager was wild.
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[X] UES Warspite
[X] UES Warspite
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Anyone got a current count? Seeing lots of votes for all 5.
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Yo.
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If building those three means we don't need to build a fourth, it will be money well spent.
And yet...
Also, the Battleship Warspite had a latin motto that could be translated as "I despise the harshness of war".
Arimai
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Warspite, Sovereign, Victory, Hood, Dreadnought. All are Royal Navy ships and all are canon Starfleet ships
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[X] UES Thunderchild
[X] UES Thunderchild
Strunkriidiisk
THE LEGEND
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Really, the ThunderSpite could probably be fairly decently converted to a more balanced peacetime vessel. Take out some of the 'extraneous' pulse cannon assemblages/torpedo silos and you could probably fit some small lab spaces in there, which is really all she needs. She won't ever be fast enough to be a first responder without fully redoing the warp system and replacing the current nacelle arrangement, but we have other ships for that.
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I mean if nothing else, we have the literal decades of brushfire wars with the Klingons to deal with.
The bulwark class is also a pretty significant departure from canon. Instead of the NX being the heaviest thing humanity can contribute, we have something at least twice as strong.
It's like contributing to the war with frigates versus heavy cruisers, we're going to be a much more equal partner in the initial coalition of planets.
It's like contributing to the war with frigates versus heavy cruisers, we're going to be a much more equal partner in the initial coalition of planets.
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Article: Warspite was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear the name. It likely originated from an archaic word for woodpecker, 'speight'; with the implication that, during the age of sail the war-speight would peck holes in her enemies' wooden hulls.[2]
Y'know what? Let's keep naming warship classes after animals. Behold, the terrifying flying beast of Earth: The Woodpecker-class.
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