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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] This one could also be in the Enterprise forum, but I think it's techy enough to be discussed here. Now that we'll get to see what Starfleet is flying in the 2150s, we will be faced with the fact that the Daedalus class is in fact really puny as far as starships go. Clearly, it will be difficult to pretend it's the top dog of the 2160-2190 period. So it could be time to rethink the whole concept of the Daedalus class now. The Essex is the only canonically known example of the Daedalus class, and even then we lack visual identification. So there are a lot of options on how to deal with the ships we THOUGHT were Daedaloi - from more severe to less so: 1) Essex is a Daedalus, as canonically stated, but looks completely different from the conjectural pictures, and is well armed and armored. Horizon is the only one that looks like the baseball-and-beer-can, as per the tabletop model, but she is not Daedalus class. Archon is something utterly else altogether, and potentially also big and bad. 2) Essex is a Daedalus and so is Horizon. Given their similar registries, they are likely to share a class. Thus, both must look like the Horizon tabletop model. Archon is a different ship, possibly more powerful. 3) All the ships are indeed just like speculated in the Encyclopedia. They just aren't very powerful for their era. They are more akin to Oberths, and the seeming lack of weapon ports is in fact because the ships do not HAVE weapons. 4) All the ships are just like speculated in the Encyclopedia, and they are indeed the primary ships of their day. Starfleet just went wimpy for a while. Or perfected miniaturization, and then forgot about it. The second theory appeals to me the most. I'd hate to lose the tabletop design, but I'd also hate to think of it in a major role now that we know that Starfleet had bigger and more modern things from day one (or, rather, from year minus-ten). There is nothing in "Power Play" to suggest that the Essex was not a meek Oberth-like surveyor, now is there? Nor are the capabilities of the Archon or the Horizon clearly outlined in the episodes. Just like Oberths look somewhat antiquated in the TOS movie era, so the Daedaloi could be old designs dating from before the "saucer era" that was begun by NX-01. Size-wise, they are similar to the supposed Enterprise class as Oberths are to the Constitution class... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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