Most likely, yeah. If there's a cheap 'gimme' or something really good we might grab it, but by and large we're going to be making a warship first, a cheap ship second, and a science/engineering vessel third.
Both have the same mass cost as far as I can see.
Yeah and I think in cannon it was still in the prototype phase so it would have been more expensive but we pushed forward with that on our last ship
Well it's going to need a computer core like any ship so that should cover most of the science need?
I think we want, at the minimum, a decent medical investment. Our science won't be rock-bottom with that. If we can fit in decent damage control, that's more than minimal engineering, too.
It depends on what the options are I imagine, we will want some level of engineering and science, how much depends on what the trade offs are in those slots.
So based on this, if we can keep the mass under 300kt then we can get away with even just two Type-2 thrusters for above-average manoeuvring.
So long as it can mount the tachyon-based sensor suite and ability to field modify it in order to counter cloaking tech then that's plenty sufficient for now
And if the 200ktons are for the entire ship, three would get us to High. (At half the price of the two Type Threes for the same.)
We might not have the stats for the D7, but we do know the Newton is a good enough match for the D6.
Something, something, 1 pound of feathers vs 1 pound of steel.
Pretty sure it's the single warp 8 ship we get before the Klingon war.
As the Kea shows this is very doable in quest, and it's also backed up by just how much the cannon Connie varied even pre-TMP refit loadout wise.
We beat the Romulans hard enough they coughed up how to do it in the peace process.
