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I was just thinking about what Starfleet's going to have to do after wrapping up the Dominion War - rebuild. Of course they could use tried-and-true designs, but they're more likely to bring out a few new classes designed with the lessons of the war in mind. So, what would you guys make the spec for these new ships?
Personally, I go for something about Intrepid-size and speed, but beef it up with a few pulse phasers and extra torp launchers (replace that useless Captain's Gig, for one thing!). Sort of a fast cruiser, or 'pocket battleship'.
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this is completely unrelated to the topic but starfleet has been making their ships smaller and smaller while all the other races have been making them bigger and bigger like the klingons rolling out the negh'var.
and before you can say the sovi is the biggest ship in starfleet--i would like to point out it is indeed smaller than the galaxy-having long nacelles don't count.
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Well in a month or so we'll be seeing post-Dominion war ships in the Voyager series finale, AFAIK.
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We don't know that for sure, hence my "AFAIK."
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Waiting for 'Drive' on video. The next best thing for Voyager is 'Equinox part 2', which just aired a few hours ago onn BBC 2.
For DS9 I'm REALLY happy to finally see season 7 on the BBC. Also, on one of our own channels we're going to see season 7 soon. They are mid-way season 6 now, but they're airing 5 times a week
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I agree with you Eclipse. However I would imagine this type of ship replacing the Excelsior class. In my opinion I think that if Starfleet wanted to keep its Excelsiors then they should upgarde it similar to the Lakota class. Before anyone suggests that the Excelsiors we saw on DS9 could be a Lakota refit, keep in mind the Lakota actually did take a little punishment from the Defiant.
I would only imagine that also that I don't think that Starfleet will ever start building Excelsiors and Mirandas after the war. Probably have them replaced by Akiras and New Orleans.
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New Orleans class would probably go in the way of the do-do after Wolf 359. This is another remnant or legacy of a Federation that turned fat and lax, and set itself up for serious defeats from the Borg and the Dominion. The Steamrunner and the Norway classes would probably fill this segment better.
I would see some of the bigger luxo cruisers like Ambassadors and Galaxy class withdrawn from the front lines and confined to diplomacy missions, leaving the smaller, meaner ships to deal with actual threats. Surviving Mirandas and Excelsiors would be pushed back from combat frontline service and turned to supply transports or troop transports or tug services.
The pure warships like the Defiant, Prometheus, Steamrunners and Norway classes would have to supplemented by the "eyes and ears" of the Fleet---scout ships loaded with the most advanced sensors and serve as EWACS and reconnaissance. I see Nova and Intrepid classes filling this role.
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The Federation will always have smaller ships than, say, the Romulans and Klingons, because they've got a LOT more territory to cover. They've got planets to protect, supplies to race to critical areas (how many times was the Enterprise racing medical supplies to a disaster?), science missions, humanitarian missions ... you name it, it's Starfleet's job.
I don't think Starfleet is even building any more Excelsiors or Mirandas. IMHO, they stopped building those decades ago. However, the most modern ships of those class continue to serve, as well as the first Excelsior- and Miranda-Class starships which rolled off the production line and haven't been felled. Look at the USS Repulse in TNG's The Child. Her registry is 2080 or something. That ship's a contemporary of the Excelsior and she's still kicking! It's clear from that alone that the Excelsior has probably a 100-year operational life span (anyone got the Hood's registry?)
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I tend to agree that Starfleet is going to specialise its ships a lot more. I wonder, would they be more likely to make their main fighting force a few mega-battleships (a Galaxy with 20-odd torp launchers etc.) or lots of Jem'hadar-like attack ships? Or even something in between like the Prommie?
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