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Nope, similar later design. Successor design basically.
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By the way, what's the overall tech level of the Alpha Quadrant at this time? I get that Earth is hilariously outmatched, but by how much?
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I think its something like humans start of hilariously behind, but rapidly advance at a ridiculous pace until their tech level is roughly the same as everyone else.
[x] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
[x] The particle cannon yields are too low to inflict meaningful damage to heavily polarised plating. (Particle Cannon -> Phase Cannon Prototype)
[x] The particle cannon yields are too low to inflict meaningful damage to heavily polarised plating. (Particle Cannon -> Phase Cannon Prototype)
From what I can tell most species in the local area are tooling around at warp 4-5-6, with the major powers like Vulcan or Andoria (who seem to be the big two on the local block) running around at warp 7. Basically everybody has shield technology, although polarised plating apparently performs decently well as a stopgap. The Naussicans are the main local pain in the ass when it comes to piracy, with the Orions chipping in every now and then.
It's the era when Klingons will literally warp into the Sol system and shoot at people because you can't stop them further out. The formation of the Coalition of Planets/proto-Federation slammed the best techbases in the sector into one unified polity, which is precisely what the Romulans wanted to prevent happening and ironically assured by losing the Earth-Romulan War.
It feels a lot of the time like the engagements that Enterprise wins it does so by basically just being United Earth's version of a cutting-edge ship with the mass and technical skill associated with that.
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LunaMoth
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The NX-01 does hit like supernaturally above its weight-class IMO.
[X] The current impulse thrusters are too bulky and space-inefficient. (Reaction Thruster -> Type 1 Thruster Prototype)
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
Pretty sure that's due to sheer competence of the crew, informed or plot or not.
I feel like it has three kinds of fights: the ones it wins cleverly through some other means like phase cannon overloads or shooting nuclear reactors, the ones where it just bodies the opposition in a couple shots because they're probably just civilian, and the ones where it tries to fight a military ship and gets slapped in the mouth. Even Enterprise in season 4 after all the weapon upgrades just gets thrown around by Vulcan or Andorian starships without even getting through their shields.
Heck, more often than not the fastest ship Earth has can't outrun things chasing it. But apparently Earth is rolling out the Warp 7 engine around 2160 so there's a clear trend there.
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LunaMoth
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STO supports this idea by having bridge crew give the ship different abilities, and yeah I just remembered that the NX-01 gets shown as heavily damaged pretty frequently.
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Are we sure there wasn't any sort of temporal futzing from someone in the future to help out Starfleet?
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To be entirely fair, I imagine Earth primarily lends social cohesion and leadership in that war, with the other three polities giving the tech and expertise edge needed to overwhelm the Romulans.
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I mean time travel is a whole plot point in Enterprise, I would say its likely TBH...
I wouldn't be surprised. It's a whole point that there's a lot of temporal warfare going on, and in the 29th century the Federation had entire timeships dedicated to maintaining the (Federation-preferred) timeline. Although some of the secondary canon postulates that prior to an outright Time War breaking out that the pre-24th century Federation was off limits because without it around the Borg basically become unstoppable by the 2700s.
[X] The current impulse thrusters are too bulky and space-inefficient. (Reaction Thruster -> Type 1 Thruster Prototype)
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
I have to admit, the DTC books are amazing to read, but yeah, ENT introduces the Temporal Cold War, bane of my existence in making sense of the Fed timeline.
[X] The particle cannon yields are too low to inflict meaningful damage to heavily polarised plating. (Particle Cannon -> Phase Cannon Prototype)
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
[X] Focus on providing cargo and transport space for the United Earth Starfleet. Will require more warp coils and hull plating.
Well ENT exists in the timeline formed after the events of First Contact. Depending on whether you believe the events of the film to be a closed-timelike-loop, there exists a pre-First Contact version of Enterprise that presumably went differently and might not have involved a temporal cold war.
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Originally the UFP founding states also included a reformed Klingon Empire and a revolutionary Romulan Star Union. Deciding this was too silly, the Q nerfed them.
So I'm voting guns and cargo because - hear me out - Q-Ships. Plus long term we're building the logistical tail for Starfleet.
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There's certainly something happening in at least SNW, from how the Romulan temporal-assassin was saying that Khan should've happened in the 1990s instead of the 2020s, and something like "time keeps inserting these events back into the timeline." Though whether that's just the usual time-agencies or something weirder...
Also, faster cargo ships, so that helps us move things around faster than the Boomers can.