78 Engineering Cruisers. More than half of Starfleet is logistics ships. Given that an additional 9 are science cruisers and 25 of the remainder are frigates, either the Klingons don't actually have that big of a fleet or they aren't willing to commit much of their fleet to the war.
We're probably not the only polity they are throwing hands with either currently or in the nearish future.
No that's about right compared to most navies. To this day a substantial portion of the USN is support vessels of one stripe or another.
Wrist to the fist and all that
Was it? I disagree. The Archer-class was a dedicated bulk transport and supply ship, the Cygnus-class was a utility cruiser with, what, 3 points of cargo? There's overlap, but the Cygnus-class was for general duties, the Archer-class was logistic support all the way. It was almost weaker than the venerable Cygnus-class in combat, and it's ~50 years less advanced.
I mean, if the Archer isn't what you're counting, then the Newton is, because what you're describing is basically the Newton, AFAIK. Only thing it's missing is Warp 8 capability.
Cheers, completely forgot that Sanfran made a ship alongside the Archer-class. Ah well, in that case then yeah we don't have a burning need for a utility cruiser.
That being said, wasn't the warp 9 drive backwards-compatible with our ships? Peer threat forces are gonna kinda be getting a nasty surprise because our fleet numbers and strength are really gonna swell over the next few decades. Hopefully we've managed to beat the hump, now we're cycling downhill for a bit.
Assuming we go by STOs manifest (in terms of classes if not individual ships, given some small continuity errors like Republic being involved) to properly fill things out*, a Georgiou-class starship (USS Garret) fought at Wolf 359 - and it's a TMP era rebuild/variant of a 2221 design (the Walker-class).
The battle of Wolf 359 in TNG was 40 starships, and they were scraping the barrel, putting several ~100 year old Mirandas into the fight. Our Miranda equivalent would either be the ship we are working on now, or our next ship, assuming it's a Cygnus replacement. Though the Newtons and Archers are pretty recent; so our next ship may end up being a replacement for the Sagarmatha / our version of the Excelsior.
So it's obvious that the Darwin should have two or three forward facing RFLs and one or two rearward RFLs, if it's going to have to throw down with the Borg in a hundred years time...
Eh, not entirely. Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
Oh! She looks lovely!
