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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Having seen a lot more DS9 recently, I picked up on a number of data points about some small ships of our acquaintance. Given the recent comments in the "Questions" thread, I decided to take a look. I've come to a conclusion I don't like, but which I can't see a way out of. I'll try to explain, but I seem to be completely missing all of my screenshots from "Pre-emptive Strike"[TNG7] . . . presumably from the last drive crash, but I don't know. 1. There are four known Maquis ship types. a. The big raiders: Chakotay's vessel was one of these. His ship is listed as the Liberty in Pathways, and it is identified as an Antares Class ship. "Repression"[VOY7] shows the Bajoran mind-control weirdo's screen with the ship designation "Val Jean", type "Maquis Raider". Eddington also used this type. "Ju'Day" has been claimed as a class name and "Zola" a ship name, but neither of those have canonical backing. b. The small raiders: Ro flew one of these in "...Strike", and several took part in the attack on Gul Evek's Galor. They are distinguished from the big raiders by a few surface details and a heavily altered forward dorsal, one which features a cockpit instead of the wide bay of windows on the big raider. c. The Federation fighters: Seen in use in "Strike", "The Maquis"[DS9-2] (both parts), and so on. And, of course, later DS9 showed this to be a Federation fighter. d. Winged Bajoran: Seen in "Strike", and as a Bajoran vessel in DS9. 2. We thus know that there's a Bajoran ship type which we can discount for our purposes. We thus have three classes, one of which is named. The two smaller versions are not. 3. In "Heart of Stone"[DS9-3], Odo and Kira believe they are chasing a Maquis vessel after a Lissepian ship reports an attack. The dialogue runs as follows: Kira: "They've just been attacked by a Maquis interceptor." Odo: "Long range sensors are detecting a modified Peregrine Class courier ship. Lightly armed, one man crew, bearing 268 mark 301." Kira: "The Maquis use Peregrine Class courier ships." Later: Kira: "I don't know what the Maquis have done to that ship's engines, but it's *fast*." Odo: "Not fast enough . . . we're closing on him." Kira: "We better catch him soon, we're entering the Badlands." ... later . . . Kira: "He's gotta be somewhere in this solar system." Odo: "There he is. Looks like he's trying to land on one of the moons orbiting that gas giant." 4. Therefore, we theoretically have a name for one of the two smaller classes, as well as a description. One of the two smaller classes of Maquis vessel, either the Federation fighter or the Maquis mini-Raider, is known as a Peregrine. Most assume that the name Peregrine must refer to the fighter, since the Peregrine Falcon is a type of bird renowned for its hunting skills (generally eating other birds that it dives upon and stabs with its talons). However, the Latin term perigrinus simply means traveller or wanderer. The species name falco peregrinus refers to its wandering habits, including very long migratory treks and the habit of spreading out moreso than other falcons such as the common kestrel or small merlin. Despite the common assumption, we see that the Peregrine is a courier in the canon. Since a courier, by definition, has to carry something, that limits the type of ship it could be. Given the tiny, cramped cockpit of the Federation fighters employed by Cal Hudson in "The Maquis, Pt. II" (which appeared to have barely more room than an MG, and certainly no more than a Triumph Spitfire), along with the external details indicating that there would be very little room behind the cockpit, it seems improbable that a ship of that type would qualify. However, we have seen that the mini-Raider has a far more spacious cabin, akin to a large shuttlecraft. ("Strike") 5. Intriguing dialogue appears in "The Maquis, Pt. I": Sisko: "I'm picking up another ship moving toward them." Dukat: "That's a Federation signature I believe, Commander." Sisko: "It sure isn't from Starfleet. I've never seen a ship configuration like that before. It almost seems like someone has modified an old support courier. Hailing them . . . no response. They've fired torpedoes! What kind of civilian vessel that size would be carrying a photon?" Though, again, we do not see the ship itself, we learn a great deal about it. It is a Federation vessel of a design that Sisko, formerly of Utopia Planitia, has not seen. He either surmises it is a civilian ship because of its non-Starfleet design, or concludes that based on its resemblance to a certain type of old support courier. It seems quite unlikely that Sisko would be unfamiliar with a standard type of Federation fighter, or that the Federation would start using a Maquis design during the Dominion War. Thus, we have additional evidence that the mini-Raider is the Peregrine, and not the Federation Tac-Fighter. 6. Counterindications: The vessel which fired torpedoes in the first part of "Maquis" is, according to this theory, one of the mini-Raiders. During the rest of the two-parter, though, we learn that Quark helps to arrange the sale of vessel weapons and other parts to the Maquis. From Quark's contacts, they get, per Quark, "deflector shields, navigational arrays, maybe a couple hundred photon torpedoes [ . . . ] and pulse cannons, and some high-energy disruptors." Odo later gives a more detailed list, saying that they received "six ship-mounted high energy disruptors, three particle accelerators, two hundred photon torpedoes, and a dozen pulse cannons." Prior to the Bryma system battle, Odo reported the following: "According to Sakona (sp?) they only have two ships capable of mounting the weapons she purchased." Since the Maquis vessels were of the Tac-Fighter type, we might conclude from this that the torpedo-firing Maquis ship from Part One was also of the Tac-Fighter type, due to the "capability" issue. After all, the Tac-Fighters did not apparently carry armaments besides phasers and photon torpedoes. However, Sisko's statements about the ship being non-Starfleet, old, and unrecognizable seem incompatible with that idea. Further, since the Tac-Fighters did not apparently carry much of what she purchased, the whole "capability" argument seems quite circumstantial and flimsy. 7. Thus, I am forced to conclude that there are four known vessel types operated by the Maquis: a. The big raiders: Antares Class b. The small raiders: Peregrine Class c. The Federation fighters: Class unknown, but "Tac-Fighter" is a useful appellation. d. Winged Bajoran: Seen in "Strike", and as a Bajoran vessel in DS9. Thoughts? Screenshots? Fire away. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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