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Fabrux
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That's right, folks, it's the mysterious USS Zandura from FC! Fresh out of the latest issue of ST: TM. It's a tiny little image at the back, but I scanned 'er in at 800 dpi and shrunk it down a tad. Enjoy!

USS Zandura

At first, I thought it was hideous. But, it grew on me pretty quick. You can pretty much pick out the design elements in this: Steamrunner-ish nacelles, Olympic stardrive (aft part, anyways), Sovereign shuttlebay. Overall, a nifty little ship.

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Well, that was certainly worth the seventeen hours it took to download. Are we to believe that this design was made into a model, or is this just a throwaway thing, or what?

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Fabrux
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Sorry about the long download time. I didn't want to risk degrading any details in a JPEG compression. If it's any condolence, the original PNG is about 3 MB

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Mark Nguyen
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Hellooooooo, Replacement Constellation!

And an article with and about Alex Jaeger's used and unused designs? Boo-yah!

Mark

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So, any new information about the ship? I also like it. Constellation-replacement? How about Cheyenne-replacement?

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If so, then there's a trend. Constellation was bristling with weapons; Cheyenne had two phaser strips and just possibly two small torp launchers on the vertical pylons, and that was that; and this baby seems unarmed at a first glance.

I'd say Oberth replacement, although she's a bit large for the job. A bigger and milder-mannered companion to the Nova class. Since no registry is given, and the nacelles don't belong to any obvious "family" or era, we might say this could be a fairly recent vessel.

This could also be one of those "four-nacelled courier" things - she's in the same size range as the reputed Pathfinder-courier at least. Secondary scientific roles, no defensive ones. Starfleet definitely needs superfast ships for liaison duties, and since not all of its ships are superfast, we can deduce there is a tradeoff. Perhaps superfast ships have to sacrifice all mission equipment like guns and labs and big computers to be successful.

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Michael Dracon
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Oooh! Very cool ship! I love it!

Let's analyse the movie again. I may have an idea on where this beauty is visible.

BTW:
ST: TM? As in Star Trek: The Magazine?

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Michael Dracon
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I could not find it

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Lee
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I think it's obvious what the relevance of this is. They got rid of the third, underslung nacelle and turned the ship upside down - result, one Sabre-class starship.

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Lee
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And, I hate it. Those nacelles are far too large.

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Aban Rune
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Four nacelled ships = suck.

MHO, of course.

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I personally like the ship. Too bad it didn't show up on ST: FC so it's design can be offical. I don't think it's the Oberth's replacement sense it's pretty obvious that the Novas fill that role. Border patrol maybe? The best way to figure out what role it's supposed to fill is to find out what roles have already been filled by various known classes of starships.

Also, If you think 4 nacelled ships suck, I bet you love the only 6 nacelled ship in starfleet.

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Well, this tiny little picture was at the back of the issue in the Queries section. No info about it. But they did say that another Jaeger article was coming up.

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Mikey T
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So there are more little goodies that Alex designed that never showed up in First Contact. Imagine what kind of fleet we would have seen being decimated by the Borg....

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Jim Phelps
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Well, finally we see what it looks like. Alex Jaeger mentioned the ship to me a year ago over e-mail, which I reproduced on these forums. I suspected it might be the unclassified piece of debris that passed by the Defiant, but now I can't really tell from these sketches.

Boris

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