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Stupid question: is it true that the dominion�s battleship exists in two versions, one in "The valiant" and the superbig in the later episode? (since I can�t see these episodes myself, I have no way of knowing...)
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pIn'a', there's the first 200-300m battlecruiser seen in the purple nebula in "In Purgatory's Shadow", then there's the 400-500m standard battlecruiser seen after said ep, then there's the 1200-1500m battleship. The "Valiant"-ship and WYLB are the same.
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It's strange how we never saw the Purgatory cruiser after that episode. Although it looks different I tend to think that it and the normal battle cruisers are meant to represent the same design in the show. Also, would I be right in thinking that the Purgatory cruiser was only built as a physical model but the normal cruiser only exists as a CGI?
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Actually we did see it. You can see one turning around and shooting down a Miranda class in the famous 'Sacrifice of Angels: kill the two Miranda's which are next to the Defiant' scene (which is also used in WYLB).
There are only a few 700-800m Dominion visible in most battles, like the one at the end of the SofA blockade, where the Defiant skims over the surface.
Try looking at the first wave of ships in 'Call to Arms'. One ship has a lot of bright purple colors is clearly larger, the rest are grey-ish with little or no other colors. Those grey ones are most probably the 300-400m ones.
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What about the ships that have a pronounced anhedral to the wings? The "V-type" ships, so to say, from the wormhole scene of "Sacrifice of the Angels"?
How many truly different *designs* are there, apart from scaled-up or scaled-down ones? One could argue there are two sizes of the small attack ship, but there's just one design. And there's just one battleship design. But the midsize ships are confusing. Are there two or three designs?
Three would include two with level wings but different-sized nacelles wrt the body, one with V wings - but do the different-sized nacelles really exist, or is this just an artistic error between the Fact Files and the Encyclopedia?
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Altair: "Call of arms", got any pics of that jem hadar ship? I can�t seem to find it anywhere.
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And how about clarifying the canonical terminology?
Is "Attack Ship" canonical for the small fighting vessels, or is it just from the Encyclopedia and DS9 TM? Have other designations been used in the episodes? Which episodes?
Is "Cruiser" or "Battlecruiser" canonical for the midsize vessels? For all the variants? Or just some of them? Which episodes use the terminology?
Was the big ship in "Valiant" a "Battlecruiser" or a "Battleship"?
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