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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Thanks, dude. A couple of points: 1. First, I want to thank The Red Admiral (is he even here anymore?), for his article on Trekmania.net about the "Unified Starship Design Theory." It helped me organize the likely Ambassador-era designs of the Antares, Apollo, Hokule'a and Wambundu classes, which also helps explain why there are only one or two vessels of these classes around by TNG. 2. It's been assumed for years that the Ambassador Class was the "midpoint" between the Excelsior and Galaxy classes (it certainly was supposed to be that way when TNG first premiered and the only design for the Ent-C was Andrew Probert's), but judging by the registries, that's really not the case. Although design-wise it's sort of a midpoint, it seems the Ambassador class was phased out even before the huge surge in Excelsior class production started, and the only starship class that was wedged in between the mass production of Excelsiors and the start of the Galaxy class "family" was the Renaissance. So is the Renaissance class the "missing link?" 3. (Continuing from #2) The Raven. Although she is definitely a Federation ship, it's not definite that the Raven was a former Starfleet vessel. However, other Federation ships (i.e. the Lakul, the T'Pau), look nothing like Starfleet vessels, while the Raven has [i]very[/i] Starfleet-like features (warp nacelles, runabout-ish design, Starfleet pennants and markings). I conjecture that she was a former Starfleet vessel that was decommissioned and given to the Hansens. Since her warp nacelles match no other known ship type, I'm speculating that she is similar in design to the Renaissance class; perhaps she is even a member of that class (I distinctly remember someone referring to the U.S.S. Aries as a "small scout ship" or something like that, in "The Icarus Factor," but none of the online scripts for that episode make that comment, and I don't have the DVD of the ep handy. Perhaps someone could take 48 minutes out of their time to watch the episode & tell me? ;) 4. I was going to talk about the Oberth class here, but for Reverend's sake, I'll demur. :p [/QB][/QUOTE]
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