Remove ads

Starfleet Design Bureau

Linked contents
Starship Design Bureau Starfleet Design Bureau
Reader mode
MysteryCPU said:
Omake: Soval and the Stingray​

As the Ambassador to Humanity for over two decades, Soval was considered by his people to be an expert on humanity. On their motivations and what their governments were going to do. It was...trying at times. The Humans were a conundrum- the arrogance of the Andorians, the stubborn pride of the Tellarites. One moment as aggressive as the Klingons, but then moments later they embrace logic like a Vulcan. Honestly, they reminded him of his own people. Mostly. And then there were moments like this...

Moments when he stared at the plans for the human's first Warp 3 class vessel on his desk display. He looked at his adjunct, T'Pol, and raised an eyebrow.

"Is the information correct?"

"Yes, it appears so. We received these plans as a...courtesy from the United Earth government," she stated after a moment's pause," We confirmed the information through our own intelligence systems. They are correct."

"But...this isn't a cargo ship," Soval said as he tapped the display," This has three forward-mounted low-yield particle projectors, a plethora of torpedo tubes... and very little cargo space. Considering what the Humans are capable of, this is a military ship."

"Yes, I voiced my observation to the United Earth representative- a Captain Leonard. He shrugged his shoulders and stated that Starfleet had requested a cargo ship and that , I quote, "Those idjits decided that a patrol ship'd be cooler. Not that I can blame them.". I took the liberty of running what he said through the translation matrix, and I believe he is saying that the Starfleet ship designers went against their requested design."

"And were those designers replaced?"

"No. They were given a week of vacation and the naming rights to the classification of ship."

"Why? They disobeyed orders."

"I believe the human aphorism is: close enough. At least, that is what I was informed."

If he weren't a Vulcan, Soval would have pinched his brow and sighed. Instead, he merely tilted his head slightly. "Interesting. Why did they choose: Stingray for the classification name? And the second ship: the Steve Irwin? I have not heard that name before."

"The vessel apparently resembles an Earth aquatic fish."

"A dangerous fish, I assume."

"Not particularly."

"They named a warship after a not-particularly dangerous fish?"

"Yes."

"And Steve Irwin? A noted warrior?"

"A historic conservationist who died to an unexpected confluence of events that ended with a Stingray killing him."

"Is this some sort of mockery?"

"I have been assured by Captain Leonard that it is considered a sincere honor on their part."

"Am I to understand that the United Earth Government asked their Starfleet to build a cargo ship. And, instead, they built a military patrol ship that they named after a fairly non-dangerous aquatic animal? And, they named the second vessel after an individual who died of this non-dangerous aquatic animal?"

"It does appear so."

It was days like this that Soval was reminded that, whether they reminded him of Vulcans, the Humans were truly alien. Or insane.

Perhaps both.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Vulcan feedback on the courtesy Stingray plans: We like the choice of a Warp 3 engine. Have you considered using it in the NX project?

Human: But then we couldn't meet as many new friends!

Vulcan: Yes. We think that would be very logical.
 
[X] Six Phase Cannons (Industry 29 -> 41) (Average Damage: 3.75)

Deeply torn on firepower overall, but I think this is the best compromise of "damage output vs industry consumption" available for this stage of things. Mostly because we still need to actually fit the NX-01 with utility stuff beyond just "shuttlepods and guns". We don't know how much the extra science and exploration gear is going to cost in terms of industry, but it's definitely worth keeping in mind that it probably will have an industry cost.
 
Ash19256 said:
Mostly because we still need to actually fit the NX-01 with utility stuff beyond just "shuttlepods and guns". We don't know how much the extra science and exploration gear is going to cost in terms of industry, but it's definitely worth keeping in mind that it probably will have an industry cost.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Sayle said:
The remaining rounds don't cost industry. Well. They don't have to cost industry. You can elect to spend 1 industry for an extra computer core.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

We have an optional +1 Industry cost
 
NavySeel said:
Let's leave them out so the main characters don't and get replaced die dozens of times every season of every show. :V
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Unfortunately, transporter use was a plot point in many an episode. At least a handful being the difference between life and death.

But, yeah, assuming these are before the waveform semi-state transition transmission format. Yeah, I'd not want the cloning machine as even my emergency "get out of sure death free" card.
 
Transporters are a must have, even if they're a shitty early version of them. I don't even want to imagine what would happen during the ENT Borg encounter without them.
 
Last edited:
Bacon_commando said:
Transporters are a must have, even if they're a shitty early version of them. I don't even want to imagine what would happen during the ENT Borg encounter without them.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
People accepting ships that constantly murder their crew because it's convinient instead of just using shuttles.

SMH my head.:(
 
Last edited:
It's become clear that not only have we been infiltrated by temporal agents, but that many of them have been paid off by Big Transporter.

This kind of financial interference and blatant corruption can not be allowed in the SDB, and is frankly beneath this era of humanity.

Anyway, I want to thank Yoyodyne for providing me with a custom luxury shuttle for my daily commute.
All Yoyodyne shuttles are of the highest quality and are sold at an affordable price, they even have the latest impulse thrusters, for more information contact Yoyodyne's new shuttle manufacturing division.
 
Last edited:
NavySeel said:
It's become clear that not only have we been infiltrated by temporal agents, but that many of them have been paid off by Big Transporter.

This kind of financial interference and blatant corruption can not be allowed in the SDB, and is frankly beneath this era of humanity.

Anyway I also wanted to thank Yoyodyne for providing me with a custom luxury shuttle for my daily commute.
All Yoyodyne shuttles are of the highest quality and are sold at an affordable price, they even have the latest impulse thrusters, for more information contact Yoyodyne's new shuttle manufacturing division.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

: Worried about transporter safety :
: Prefers to use Yoyodyne products instead :

If I were a Vulcan, I'd be screaming inside about the illogicalness right now.
 
Last edited:
NavySeel said:
Anyway, I want to thank Yoyodyne for providing me with a custom luxury shuttle for my daily commute.
All Yoyodyne shuttles are of the highest quality and are sold at an affordable price, they even have the latest impulse thrusters, for more information contact Yoyodyne's new shuttle manufacturing division.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

In a pinch, they double as torpedoes when they explode :V
 
Arkio said:
You can still scream out of a sense of self-preservation though!
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Indeed. Though, please don't misunderstand. I value Yoyodyne highly, as our premier manufacturer of FTL-capable missiles they are a vital strategic asset!

Actually... now that I'm thinking about it, maybe that is a paradigm worth exploring? We've been joking till now, but given that "ramming speed!" is a well established and frequently effective tactic in Star Trek, why wouldn't that be a valuable addition to our doctrine? Small, unmanned "ships" meant to ram the enemy at warp speed?
 
Last edited:
NavySeel said:
Phasers work pretty much perfectly for point defense to be honest, there's no reason to have dedicated point defense guns when the ships main guns can shoot down small fighters and torpedos just fine.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Not really we never see that as they do the opposite and let their shields deal with this. It would not have been that hard to give a Galaxy 8 or so gimbal mounted Pulse weapons to kill torpedoes smaller craft. Space was there enough for it. Hell with their Computers they could literally automate it and one of the greater danger of the Dominion ships their torpedo barrages is invalidated.

Driven by Apathy said:
: Worried about transporter safety :
: Prefers to use Yoyodyne products instead :
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
To be fair to Yoyodyne in this Timeline they only sold one product and that was their warp coils we still do not know how that turned out and need to wait until the certification/prototyping of the Enterprise.
 
Driven by Apathy said:
Indeed. Though, please don't misunderstand. I value Yoyodyne highly, as our premier manufacturer of FTL-capable missiles they are a vital strategic asset!

Actually... now that I'm thinking about it, maybe that is a paradigm worth exploring? We've been joking till now, but given that "ramming speed!" is a well established and frequently effective tactic in Star Trek, why wouldn't that be a valuable addition to our doctrine? Small, unmanned "ships" meant to ram the enemy at warp speed?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Warp Torpedoes, so we can fire Inter-System "Ballistic" Missiles at Romulus.
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top