Huh, now that sound like what we should name our next smaller warship/Stingray replacement.
I agree with this. From the Enterprise TV series it seems like the Romulans were really paranoid about the formation of the Coalition of Planets. Paranoid and thinking the coalition would conquer them, because they project the paranoia and wanted to conquer the coalition first. They wanted the Andorians/Vulcans/Tellarite to fight each other and Earth was a small fry. With the in-fighting, Vulcan would became weak enough the Romulans could "reunite" with them. The holographic disguise drone was all about causing them to in-fight each other. Eventually the in-fighting would also lead to conquering the Coalition of Planets.
That's about my take on things - without the Xindi forcing Earth to focus on other threats and spend less time conducting diplomacy and exploration, the Coalition of Planets was coming together even faster than in canon. This, in turn meant that Romulus was potentially looking less and less at a divided and warring set of separate powers to consume piecemeal, but a unified power bloc that could potentially match or exceed Romulus in capability as time went on. This, of course, not being helped by United Earth's rapidly growing industry, and the strategic speed advantage that most Coalition powers possess.
They don't go fast even without cloak. The majority of their fleet is no faster than Block 1 Stingray and Zheng He class vessels. The uncloaked vessels that tried to genocide earth were slower than our fleet (and uncloaked) which is why we were able to intercept them.
I expect that this would have been the case if we had gone CLs rather than a BB, the United Earth navy using superior Warp speed to force the Romulan military to task inordinate escorts and weaken the actual garrison for a later battle there.
We gave the NX class extra engineering and had three on hand post battle, I am fairly sure there was a lot of work down from stores and equipment from those three.
I suppose it's fitting that Enterprise kept doing Hero Ship-style independent operations through the opening phase of the war.
While that would be super cool, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, politically.
In real life, ship classification is pretty unreliable. Classification is done by country governments and countries play political games with classification so much. One country's destroyer may weigh the same amount as another country's cruisers.
Our NX was built quite a bit heavier than canon NX, though with not much better tech. Tech in particular is Vulcan's major advantage as a power, and they notably surpass their Rihannsu cousins in warp tech (read: both speed and operational range) especially. Earth ships also outspeed and outrange typical Romulan ships, it seems - this is an advantage of antimatter warp drives over other types.
True. I meant more in the sense of, internationally speaking, what would other nations classify something like the Thunderchild-class as, thinking back to how the NX, though listed by the UE as an explorer-type, most everyone else considers it a heavy cruiser equivalent.
Especially if we can integrate shields. If Photonic Torpedoes can be fired at warp, then faster-at-warp United Earth ships should be able to mercilessly boom-and-zoom on uncloaked varieties of Warbirds and facilities.
Hmm, hmm, i see your points. Time to scrap the Stingrays for better ships, a shame too, ah well, c'est la vie~
