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It is cool. Although I've always considered the Nebula to be to the Galaxy what the Miranda is to the Constitution. Anyone ever done a Nebularised Excelsior, to make the family complete?
One small thing though. Isn't the registy a little low?
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I reckon the Centaur is a (ignoring a possible ship-bash status) Mirandarised/Nebularised Excelsior family variant.
Speaking about Families... If the Springfield is the first of the Galaxy family... what would have been the first of the Ambassador family? I have a guess here - maybe it was the Renaissance Class... considering it was the first (I think the DS9 Tech Manual said) to have Escape Pods (or was that visible escape pods). How do the Ambassador registries/Renaissance registries match up?
Actually does anyone have a numbered list of Fed ships (canon) from lowest to highest registry? It might help in slotting in 'unseen' classes. Although yes yes, there are some 'new' batches of Oberths and Mirandas and Excelsiors that appear through the 3#####'s and the 4#####
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Thanks everyone, I'm glad (speaking for Reverend too) that this design and model seem popular. We've both actually had a fair amount of resistance to it at the ASDB when presenting our cases that this is a plausible design for the Apollo.
Psy, the registry's right, this is the USS Gage, NCC 11672.
AndrewR, the Renaissance is a lot later than the Apollo. Her known registries are in the NCC 45*** region, putting her launch date probably somewhere in the 2340's bracket.
For anyone interested there's more pictures and info on the Apollo Page
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Agreement on the lack of windows on the saucer. One thing I always hated about the Galaxy was all the damn windows. In some sections (such as the interconnecting pylon) the damn hull is almost 50% transparent aluminum. That's a lot of faith in a 20th century product (transparent aluminum), and ahs to substantially weaken the overall hull integrity.
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quote:the damn hull is almost 50% transparent aluminum
50% is a bit of an exageration. keep in mind that the structural integrity field is going to give the ship lots of strength, regardless of what material it is made of.
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Treknophyle: That's assuming that starships are of monocoque construction (no rude comments, please) rather than having most of the stress borne by an internal skeleton. I've always tended to favor the later, but most blueprints, going back to Franz Joseph's, don't show any internal framework, so maybe ships are monocoque.
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I think the TNG tech manual implies that the habital volume of the ship is just sort of draped along an internal support structure, though, doesn't it?
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: Treknophyle: That's assuming that starships are of monocoque construction (no rude comments, please) rather than having most of the stress borne by an internal skeleton. I've always tended to favor the later, but most blueprints, going back to Franz Joseph's, don't show any internal framework, so maybe ships are monocoque.
there is no way that a large ship would be monocoque. isn' a galaxy class skeleton visible in the utopia planitia scene in voyager?
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Though the pattern on the pylons are kind of ugly, the pylon end phaser strip could be lowered a bit, and the whole pylons should be angled so the bottom portion stretches a bit backwards.
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To me that design is too Nebula-like. While I understand the design is supposed to be a Ambassador type Nebula, it could have a design of it's own. I mean The Constitution class has the Miranda class which is different from the Nebula and the Centuar class. I would think the design would have to be different in it's own little way.
Other than that, the schematic and the pics are great.
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