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Sayle said:
The Shran didn't last much longer than that. Suddenly losing one of our impulse engines and half of Deck 3 was about as close to fatal as it gets. Our only saving grace was that the Borg were still deadset on reaching Earth, and they didn't stop to finish us off as we drifted out of the engagement. If you read the after-action reports you could be forgiven for thinking the Ushaan were cannon-fodder: of the sixteen Ushaan-class ships that fought in the battle, only two were still intact at the end of it. Well, I suggest you look at the logs again. Of every ship design involved in the Battle of Sector 001, it's the Ushaan that managed the longest average survival time. I can tell you it sure as hell wasn't because the Borg weren't shooting
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"Cheer up Worf. The Defiant isn't the littlest ship anymore."

[X] A Long-Range Science Ship (Project Intrepid)
 
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IamtooSleepy said:
Also, holy hell, Ushaan got 3 production runs of 30
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NHO said:
That's... wow.
Honest attempt to do something about Miranda infestation.
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Holy shit, ninety hulls. Even with combat losses, that's a lot.

Silversun17 said:
It's like they wanted a carrier without admiting they want a carrier and then just technobabled it into working.
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Starfleet Counsellor: "You need to stop fixating on Starship Voltron. It isn't real and it can't hurt you."

USS Prometheus dividing into three and flying past the window:
 
One interesting explanation for the Prometheus that I've encountered was that they were designed as three warships that skimped drastically on support sections, such that it's only when combined that they can actually fully support their crew -- that it's not that they're getting an increase in fighting capability by separating, but that when joined in order to have full non-combat functionality their combat capabilities plummet well below what they ordinarily would be.
 
Sayle said:
The only possible interpretation I have of the Prometheus is that it was designed to basically be three Defiant-grade heavy frigates stapled together to a high-performance warp chassis. It goes very fast with a brute force warp core (which is huge because it has to safely split into three warp cores (?!) and then splits apart into three low-endurance but very shooty hulls. It might also be because it's got Type-12 phasers like the Sovereign, but still. The only flaw I really see with the idea is what do you do if the middle of the sandwich gets destroyed. Can the top and bottom hulls reconnect without it?

But yeah it's just...such a weird ship.
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I think if you want to do that, you may as well go the full way and do an attack boat tender. Not 3 hulls stapled together to travel but a 4th one designed for long range transport carrying the 3 short range attack boats.
 
[X] A Long-Range Science Ship (Project Intrepid)
Nyvis said:
I think if you want to do that, you may as well go the full way and do an attack boat tender. Not 3 hulls stapled together to travel but a 4th one designed for long range transport carrying the 3 short range attack boats.
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I'd love to some design kind of carrier ship here. Maybe a way to weaponize the Intrepid's infinite shuttle reserves...
 
I'll be honest, most of my experience with actual Star Trek episodes was mostly watching TOS and TNG reruns on TV, and then streaming them along with some of DS9 later on back when they were available on Netflix. So much of my knowledge of the other series is through osmosis or little factoids I run into.

I'm telling you this, so you get an idea of why I was so confused when people in this thread started talking about the USS Prometheus, and their theories on how and why it exists. Because when I heard the description in the update, I imaged a oversized cruiser that had a few parasite aircraft-like Corvettes that temporally separated from the Saucer during battle, not that the entire ship separates into three actual full-sized independent cruisers. Seriously, I have no idea for the reasoning why this would exist, either in-universe or out.
 
[X] A Long-Range Science Ship (Project Intrepid)

I'd normally vote for the Akira as it and Armitage are some of my favorite ships but..
I'd like to design something exploration focused.
 
[X] A Tactical Cruiser (Project Prometheus)

I absolutley detest the canon design, and would like to take this chance to erase it from existance.
 
I admit, part of me wants the Prometheus to see what other batshit designs we could be allowed to come up with given the opportunity to go completely off the rails.
 
Model DC.14F said:
I'll be honest, most of my experience with actual Star Trek episodes was mostly watching TOS and TNG reruns on TV, and then streaming them along with some of DS9 later on back when they were available on Netflix. So much of my knowledge of the other series is through osmosis or little factoids I run into.

I'm telling you this, so you get an idea of why I was so confused when people in this thread started talking about the USS Prometheus, and their theories on how and why it exists. Because when I heard the description in the update, I imaged a oversized cruiser that had a few parasite aircraft-like Corvettes that temporally separated from the Saucer during battle, not that the entire ship separates into three actual full-sized independent cruisers. Seriously, I have no idea for the reasoning why this would exist, either in-universe or out.
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My head cannot is that it was an exploratory prototype where starfleet threw an idea at the wall to see if it would stick or melt the damn wall. Starfleet does crazy shit.


Honeslty a ship that acts like a carrier for parasite gunboats as you suggest would be a lot more cost effective and easier to devlop. We could look at the concept post Dominion war when the defiant class gets patched up so we could just take that entire class and rip out everything a parasite gunboat doesn't need and can leave the carrier/tender to handle.
 
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