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Harry
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In the DS9 ep I saw yesterday (don't know the name) Odo mentioned the USS Constellation.

The Constellation and the Defiant was supposed to look for Sisko, who was on the USS Honshu, wich had been attacked by Cardies.

In the first scene, you see a Yeager class (UGLY!!) and the Defiant docked at DS9. So, if the Const. and the D where the only ships there, as I think Odo said, the Yeager I saw must have been the USS Constellation.

(It's the latest ep i've seen, so I don't know if there have been any topics abut this before)

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Your explanation sounds good to me, Prakesh. It does seem unappropriate to give a distinguished name like Constellation to a crappy Yeager though. Even so, I'd be highly surprised if the prototype Constellation was still in one piece.

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What's wrong with the Yeager? I think it looks pretty nifty

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*agrees with Fabrux*

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Mikey T
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I'm not going to be surprised if it turns out to be a Yeager Class, I mean remember the Excelsior Class USS Farragut?

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Fabrux
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Delta Vega: It's about time I found someone who likes the Yeager!

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Elim Garak
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I like it.
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It's fine...if you like kitbashes that look like cat puke.

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Wasn't the Constellation also mentioned in an earlier DS9 ep? I seem to recall that the encyclopedia claims that it's the original Constellation-class one. Of course, if we could find evidence that a Yeager was around in that ep, too, we might have something...

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Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but even if there was a given ship at DS9 at the beginning of the show, what is to say that she was available later in the show? Perhaps she sped in the opposite direction soon thereafter, or had strict orders not to abandon DS9?

And yes, I'd like give the name Constellation to a bit larger ship, too. And take it away from the old Constellation-class tub as soon as possible - that ship no longer is worthy of it! In fact, I'd postulate a Nebula-class Constellation from the 2350s onwards (although not a preceding Ambassador or Excelsior - the old NCC-1974 should soldier on to mid-24th century so that the Stargazer wouldn't look so outdated and out-of-place).

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Michael Dracon
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I love the Yeager class! To me it ranks as high as the Miranda Class when it comes to kitbashes.

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Harry
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Timo: Immediately after the shot of the Yeager and the Defiant at DS9, Odo said that the Constellation and the D where the only ships.

PS I don't think the 'real' Yeager has a Maquis-but, but some pre-Intrepid folding nacelle pylons, wich explains the wings.

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[This message has been edited by Prakesh (edited January 14, 2000).]


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Aban Rune
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Altair: Miranda Class- NOT a kitbash!! A kitbash is a modeling term that describes a ship made of prexisting ship parts. The Miranda had a custum built saucer and Nacelles that resmebled the constitution class but that were also custum built. They would have had to have been seeing as the struts attach to the top and not the bottom of the nacelles like the Const. Class'.

The Yeager Class MODEL is a kitbash. It was constructed from a Voyager model's saucer and nacelles and a Maquis raider. I do agree with Prekesh though that if we were to examine the 'real' Yeager up close we would find that it is quite different from the model. When and if I can get ahold of another Voy and Maquis model, I'm going to incorporate a deflector under the saucer and some other minor modifications to differentiate the engineering hull from the Maquis raider.

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AndrewR
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We're mixing our meanings of Kitbash here peoples, kitbash is the name for how they made the model - but irrespective of that - in the real world - i.e. the Star Trek one They would just stick parts together like that - ok the might but SOME thought and there must be SOME reason for them to do it...

Who is to say that in the Star Trek universe someone just went hey I know lets stick the nacelles on the bottom of the saucer section with out a bulky engineering section!?!

YEAH GREAT IDEA! One problem - deflector and torpedo problems.

I already thought of that - just at a rollbar here and some deflector nodules here... and Surak's your uncle.

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Aban: No need to add a deflector. The Intrepid saucer already has one.

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