Hmm, I can't support this but I understand it.
Given the current voting cycle hasn't closed yet, might want to change the letter you're using between the brackets.
Fair enough, had forgot that.
"You could not live with your failure. Where did it lead you? Back to us."- UP Design Bureau, to Starfleet Admiralty Board.
I disagree. What's happened IMO is that the "vibes" of the last update make the Federation feel incompetent, even though they are supposed to be reasonably competent in the story, and that is causing people to over-react and "doompost" to a certain extent.
I mean, a peer opponent threw almost their entire fleet into the core of the federation, and yet still lost, even if the battle was bloody.
This as no impact on the public and political perspective of it. The fact that it even happened in the first place is going to make people panic.
There's a WORLD of difference between a competent but peaceful underdog against a bloodthirsty empire built on conquest, and what we got. Starfleet was so utterly LAX that they routinely let Colonies get de facto if not de jure enslaved by Pirates. They were so lax that most colonies would never ever see a Starfleet vessel. That's not competency. That's not utopia. That withering corruption at best.
Yeah, after 50% or more of the fleet was destroyed, a Member homeworld was lost entirely, another core one was bombarded and almost taken and multiple key infrastructural hard points were destroyed solely to deny them to the enemy because the defense was so woefully underfunded it was laughable. This is after seeming DECADES of rampant Colony abuse where if your colony was not a key resource extraction node you were at best ignored by everyone at worst enslaved by pirates in all but name because Starfleet never even bothered to come around to even check on you. And the fleet itself which by all metrics should have been enough needed to get bailed out by two member fleets that by all rights shouldn't have been needed at all, meaning all that funding Starfleet has been getting is in fact wasted and local member navies are not only adequate, they're outright superior.
Logically, the Klingons would have rolled us all separately the second they really got around to it. Emotionally, for the Andorians this is the London Blitz - a defining moment of hardship and tragedy that ultimately comes to be seen as a glorious triumph. The contrarians are busy arguing with each other about all the ways they could have prepared for them better, but they can all agree FUCK THOSE GUYS.
The quest Canon has the Canon-Constitution having had a total of 14 built compared to 18 Quest-Excaliburs.
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There is a big difference between people thinking what a qm is doing is wrong and people seeing as the ones who are designing ships think the people actually in charge of the navy are fundamentally not fit for the role, like a lot of people don't necessarily want to sacrifice engineer and science points for tactical points in ships not mainly built for combat so they can be good combat ships but suck more at their attended job but they don't see how they can when the Navy won't or can't build enough ships we or other designers did design for combat.
Not only did we build more Excaliburs than the canon Constitution, we built more of them even though the Excalibur is much more expensive than the Constitution was. Looking at the cost disparity here, it's clear our efforts to improve the Federation's economy have made a difference. It's also clear from the price tag that Starfleet is taking things extremely seriously.
