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Seeing as how the ship that really was made to fight the Borg was nearly destroyed in FC, but the others weren't, that really wasn't that bad of an idea :P
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Anyone who insists that the Akira etc. must be old classes should be bludgeoned to death with the Prometheus, Phoenix, and a few Sovereign escape pods.
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What registry did they give the Thunderchild? For all we know, they may have gotten the Spector and Thunderchild registries backwords, and that Thunderchild registry may be the real Spector registry
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Eek! That is rather impressive.
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BTW, does anyone else think that the boxy things in the cutouts near the edge of the saucer are side launching torpedo tubes? I had thought they were windows, which they clearly aren't...
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More important than registry numbers, I should think, are the design features. It is obvious from an artist or designer's point of view that the Akira is a stablemate of the Sovereign, NOT the older Galaxy class. Now, the Nebula, New Orleans, etc, are obviously of the Galaxy-class stable. But while the Akira may have preceeded the Sovereign, it would not have been of a different school of design altogether.
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As you mentioned, Brigman, it would appear to be standard procedure in Starfleet to test new ship designs on smaller scales before committing to the "flagship" classes. The Galaxy family, for instance.
It seems like a good idea to have more than one design philosophy in use at a time, just in case.
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My opinion has always been that the four FC ships were all being refitted, which is why there were so many of them Earth, they were practically the only ones at Earth, and they look newer than their registries suggest.
And the Prometheus is an exception. It would be preferable to have as few exceptions as possible...
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The encyclopedia gives two registries for the USS Thunderchild. The first is the NCC-63549. The second is the NCC-65549. This registry is seen on a diagram of the ship.
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Either the people who designed the FC ships didn't look into the Encyclopedia for a suited registry range. Or it was intentional, yet illogical, and they thought "Let's design fecking new ships, but give them old numbers, so we don't have to explain there are four new ship types at a time".
If the numbers were strictly chronological, the Akira would be the only ship of the four where a 6xxxx number is justified. Maybe the ships have been refitted with new (Sovereign) escape pods, but I rather assume there are several standard types of escape pods that are used for more than one decade.
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The Akira is clearly of the same family as the Galaxy, etc. The eliptical saucer, the similar warp nacelles and so on. No way is it part of the Sovereign family. Only the Norway with it's pointy saucer can be a post-Galaxy starship design.
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For all it's unusual design features, the overall 'look' (the livery, as it were) does seem more reminiscent of the Nebula family. The others, including the Norway regardless of its pointy nose, have a very retro look, in terms of their colours etc.
A long time ago, someone suggested that these ships might be recent converts from the armed forces of a new Federation member. I mean, the Sabre's nacelles look rather like those on Klingon ships, and the Norway's seem very old-fashioned.
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