Hard disagree. Stingray is designed from the ground up as a military ship. Please note it's Engineering Score of Zero. It's got no extra space to work with and the Impulse Engines aren't fixing that. Nevermind it's low cruise speed.
Given the Warp engines are backwards compatible by design as well as impulse engines by the fact they are smaller and thus take up less space for equal or even greater thrust, our current frames work fine, for now at least. I'm not against new designs, but they're not must haves at the moment.
And even when we can no longer retrofit new warp stuff into them they would still be useful for things that don't need the fastest ships like patrols.
Who said anything about making it a combat ship? We're talking about making it a dedicated science vessel. I'm not interested in it being a combat ship because if it is in a situation where it's fighting then things have gone well and truly Fubar.
A good idea idea in principle but only after the coming war.
Of course
Completely wrong. Freighters are orbs, dedicated science ships are all mighty C U B E shaped.
It already has a 6 in Engineering, which determines its ability to transport and carry cargo. It's probably already pretty good for the Industrial Cost and tech level that we're at, though we might want to refit the engines so it can move around faster.
There's always a next war, and always a reason to deprioritize whatever one's low priorities are.
Honestly, I kinda expect that to have ben something like a Warp 1-3 Test Craft.
Looks a little like if a part of the ISS had nacelles slapped onto it, kinda cool TBH.
"Cannot" means "can never," and "in parallel" means "always and only where resources prioritized to other things permit," which proves my point, really.
Can you stop being unnecessarily antagonistic and twisting or outright putting words in people's mouths? It makes both you and any point you're trying to make look terrible. You're not even arguing at this point just sniping and slandering in bad faith.
