If I read that right, their warp nacelles were basically just Earth's combined with some vulcan tech they stole, so the results should be easily replicable for the federation.Did we get any sweet sweet Romulan warp nacelles, shield emitters, or cloak parts to reverse-engineer? Feels like all of those would be pretty high-priority.
Thunderchild-A for a future captial ship name.At the very least, Warspite remains. Alone, but unbowed. Truly, Thunderchild and Polyphemus will be remembered fondly. Perhaps their names go on a List of Honor, Honor Harrington-style?
That or a new Cargo Ship. If shields aren't yet on the table I'd say armed Merchantman, if they are then NX replacement.
That or a new Cargo Ship. If shields aren't yet on the table I'd say armed Merchantman, if they are then NX replacement.
Important strategic targets had just gone from over a year away at warp to a few months. There was serious concern that the willingness of the Romulans to engage scouting starships meant that a reserve of these new ships had already been assembled behind enemy lines and was ready for deployment. This fear was confirmed at the Second Battle of Sol in April of 2160, when the Thunderchild-class Warspite and a half-dozen Skate-class frigates were forced to launch without their torpedo payloads from the San Francisco fleetyards to assist a pair of Tellarite cruisers with engaging a trio of the new Romulan Birds of Prey, during which the under-construction NX Orion was torpedoed in dock and many of the orbital manufacturing facilities likewise destroyed. While one of the Romulan attackers was disabled and subsequently self-destructed, the other two disengaged at Warp 6 and fled the system. Nowhere was safe.
IMO better would be Burya - noted in that same article as being the more likely official name for the second Buran-class orbiter, whereas Ptichka was a generalized "nickname" for all three of the orbiters. If the nickname needs to be used for an extra NX-class, I'd instead suggest it be used for the one which vaguely corresponds to the third Buran-class orbiter (GRAU serial number 11F35 3K), which never even had an official name planned for it before the Buran program was canceled.
Ugh, Serves me right for copying the name from the title of Wiki article than the Actual Name.IMO better would be Burya - noted in that same article as being the more likely official name for the second Buran-class orbiter, whereas Ptichka was a generalized "nickname" for all three of the orbiters.
This I agree with entirely, the successor heavy cruiser should be the first real exploration ship we produce in this timeline.The war is won, and now the future awaits. Probably little for it for existing designs because the introduction of shields will likely call for entirely new classes across the line. I'd say the Dreadnoughts were cautiously kind of a failure in that their strategic impact likely did not justify the resources they commanded, though the opportunity costs of any new warship are hard to determine. We might have been advised to build something like the Skate-class a lot earlier instead, but what's done is done. And at least in the short term the Skate-class is probably still worth producing solely for intra-system defense and patrol until a new shielded replacement is ready.
I'd say on the whole the most effective ships, pound-for-pound, were probably the NX-class. Aside from suggesting it be retroactively dubbed the Enterprise-class, I'd also fast-track a replacement as the first new Starfleet ship. It can use shields, photonic torpedoes, and the Warp 7 engine with approximately a fit of weapons like the Skate plus an aft stinger cannon or two. Try to keep it to medium maneuverability or higher, and with all of the cargo space, shuttles, machine shops, med bays, and etc needed for extended operations. It'll be the first generalist explorer and patrol vessel to cement the new Starfleet as a presence in local space and provide the tools needed to go forth to seek out strange new worlds and new civilizations.
That or a new Cargo Ship. If shields aren't yet on the table I'd say armed Merchantman, if they are then NX replacement.
I'd say on the whole the most effective ships, pound-for-pound, were probably the NX-class. Aside from suggesting it be retroactively dubbed the Enterprise-class, I'd also fast-track a replacement as the first new Starfleet ship. It can use shields, photonic torpedoes, and the Warp 7 engine with approximately a fit of weapons like the Skate plus an aft stinger cannon or two. Try to keep it to medium maneuverability or higher, and with all of the cargo space, shuttles, machine shops, med bays, and etc needed for extended operations. It'll be the first generalist explorer and patrol vessel to cement the new Starfleet as a presence in local space and provide the tools needed to go forth to seek out strange new worlds and new civilizations.
But given the Warp 7 engine is expected in half a decade and there are memorandums of understanding for technological exchange between members of the Coalition at an unspecified future date, is the cost now worth it when the Bulwark might not even have much of a future after the war?
We got full technical documentation including their vulnerability to tachyon beams. We can make our own.@Sayle Did we actually get cloaking technology, or did the Romulans merely tell us how to detect their cloaked ships?
This I agree with entirely, the successor heavy cruiser should be the first real exploration ship we produce in this timeline.
@Sayle Did we actually get cloaking technology, or did the Romulans merely tell us how to detect their cloaked ships