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[X] UES Curiosity. Named after robotic probes.
Maybe one of the ships of this lineage can be nicknamed Oppy.
 
[X] UES Newton. Named after philosophers of the natural sciences.

The U.E.S. Tesla (named after our favorite Serbian scientist of course) will ride the stars!

Though I do like the idea of medical scientists getting first dibs too.
 
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The Yoyodyne curse refuses to die.
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Some of the Yoyodyne personnel must have been hired as subject matter experts or something by Avidyne Systems. One of these days they will underpromise and over-deliver (I hope).

[X] UES Curiosity
So we can get names like Giotto, Venera, Rosetta, Tianwen, Hayabusa, Chang'e, Lunokhod, Stardust, and Slim. Really though every option is awesome.

Hope we get a side view of this where the secondary hull is covered by nacelle. I think it'll look a bit like a space-gun facing backwards. The design should have decent potential as the base for a scout in a few years, stick another few improved phasers on it, some upgraded torps, and shield/impulse improvements and it'd be mean.

Closer to 'now' I suspect they'd also make some different science variants or play around with what kinds of labs they stick in it as they build more. With what these cost I think we nailed this design. We'll see if history agrees.
 
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[X] UES Brahe. Named after astronomers and astrophysicists.
[X] UES Newton. Named after philosophers of the natural sciences.
[X] UES Curiosity. Named after robotic probes.

I like all three it doesn't matter to me which of these wins. I'm glad we went for the nacelle choice we did though, since we failed the check and all. Imagine going for the other nacelles and failing both checks, the ship might have exploded.
 
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We'll likely be pumping out enough of them that I could see all three naming lineages existing in this vessel.
 
[X] UES Curiosity. Named after robotic probes.

I love our little robot probes, so naming ships after them is just the best idea.

Anyways, onto my list of joke ship names.
[JK] UES Hello, Gordon!
[JK] UES Look Gordon, a rope!
[JK] UES Gordon, I need spices
[JK] UES You thought wrong, my good bitch!
[JK] UES Look out Gordon, explosi-
[JK] UES No one messes with the Science Team!
[JK] UES Do you have your Passport?
[JK] UES Half-Life, but the AI is Self-Aware
[JK] UES SUDDEN BOSS BATTLE
[JK[ UES Soda
[JK] UES There's an entrance in your suit, Gordon, and I WANT IN!
[JK] UES That was, uh, that was a passport.
 
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[X] USS Beagle

Good idea. I'll switch to this.

Looking at the ship diagram, I think the only place the torpedo bay could have fit is where we have the biolab instead. A bit more of a literal "swords to ploughshares" than I expected.
 
Hmm, could we try a half sphere (Like the Nobel Class) or half sphere + hat (something like a Klingon D7)? The flat top would get us good firing arcs for top mounted phasers, but we'd gain a bit more space on the bottom of the saucer section. It would, presumably, already have built in extra space to mount a deflector, so we don't keep having to add lower blisters to saucer sections.
 
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[X] UES Attenborough. Named after Naturalists and Explorers

A late, but fitting entry, I think, considering the bioscience lab choice and the overall focus of the class.
 
We're now 2 for 2 on missing the mark on warp thresholds, something I was worried about but thought the middle option would be good enough about. Bit annoyed at ourselves here.

Anyway

[X] UES Curiosity

Boring? Maybe. Fitting? Yeah.
 
Largely, that's a material failure more than it is a configuration failure. More likely than not, given some time, it'll be patched up naturally as nacelles get repaired with better materials for generating warp fields.
 
Besides, warp nacelles half-failing is a Yoyodyne standard by this point in time.*

*time may not be linear, see your local Temporal Agency if you are desyncing.
 
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