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I hereby submit that the class of the USS Centaur, in abscence of a canonical reference, should be based in part on its apprearance.
Ever since I first saw the model, I was appalled at all the gold/bronze stuff all over her - sorta like jewelery, or chains. Add to this the raised ridge incorporating the Miranda bridge bubble and Excelsior shuttlebay/deflector doohickey, which looks almost like a mohawk. And all this, on pieces of a ship which was popular back in the 1980s of TV/movies, but that has seen only a lackluster career in the 1990s world and today.
Based on this and discussions with someone who shall remain nameless at this juncture, we've decided to call this one a BARACUS CLASS STARSHIP.
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Mark, for all we know the ship could turn out to be the same class as the Tolstoy.
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"In 2372 a crack starship crew was sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit. These men escaped from a military stockade to the Maquis Underground. If you have a problem, and no-one else can help, and if you can find them - maybe you can hire - the Centaur crew!"
It'd make a nice dedication plaque. 8)
Personally, I always wanted the Centaur to be a Chimera. After all, a centaur is a chimeric animal, and the ship itself is a mixture of two different designs.
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Then again, the one known Chimera is named the Portland. Any residents here who could verify whether Portland bears a close resemblance to an unholy joining of a goat, a lion and a snake?
All that ornamentation and jewellery on the Centaur would be quite fitting of the renaissance era, if you catch my drift...
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quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Mark, for all we know the ship could turn out to be the same class as the Tolstoy.
No way! I have a nice concept for the Rigel based on the four-nacelled Excelsior-study. No one touches that name!
Besides liking the dedication for the ship, I think it's a good name for it.
You said you discussed the name with someone who's name shall not be revealed. The tell us just how official the guy is (scale from 1-10, 1=fanboy, 10=Mike Okuda, sort of).
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"No, No, No! The Centaur has been Baracus class for 28 years, and now comes some ARTIST, and calls it Bananas-class. It's an insult to the Flare Group, who did so much to rationalize these ships over the years. No way, it's gotta be Baracus-class and Bananas-subclass."
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The point of this thread is that we're assigning a class name to a starship that needs one. And I personally support staying away from established name classes in the off chance that that name would be assigned to something in the canon eventually... And if the Centaur ends up being one of them officially, we can more easily discard a fandom name for the official one than switch official ones around. Besides, I don't think any of us want to steal the thunder from the great work the boys over at ASDB are doing. As for the nameless one, I promised not to tell who or why for a while. And no, I'm not being an elistist bastard withholding info or something. The story will eventually be told.
Regardless, I like the Centaur being a Baracus-class starship, so I'm sticking to it. Obviously, Reg Barclay (or one of his ancestors) had something to do with this ship looking so nutty.
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I suggest using either a canon name or an official name that's likely to appear onscreen, or no name at all. If you really, really need it for a publication, it makes sense to connect ship names and classnames, even though that isn't always the pattern.
Remember that the U.S.S. Jenolan (named after Jenolan caves near Sydney) is Sydney class, or that the runabouts follow the river pattern, or that the Apollo-class continues with Agammemnon and Ajax, or that the Istanbul-class comprises the Constantinople and Sarajevo....
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quote:I don't think any of us want to steal the thunder from the great work the boys over at ASDB are doing.
I give as much of a flying fuck about what the twats over at ASDB are doing as I give about FASA, Franz Whatthefuck (Joseph?) and any other if-enough-fanboys-agree-on-it,-it-becomes-canon wankathon. But I see your point about how complicated it gets if the Centaur turns out to be a different unseen class entirely. It was hard enough calling the Shelley the Curry instead, as it was. 8)
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