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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb] Current USN practice derives mostly from the fact that the only real qualification for a flagship is a big room full of communications gear. And big ships tend to have big rooms. In earlier times, there were other considerations - flagships had to compensate for slow and short-ranged communications and poor situational awareness by being nimble and fast, and often had to fight in the front lines to properly see what was going on. OTOH, lines could be held and rear-echelon ships be protected. Starfleet lives in a different reality again. Unlike the USN, it doesn't seem to believe in securing a perimeter around a core ship - fleets butt heads by getting thoroughly intermingled. Klingons bring their flagships to the front, too, and in "Way of the Warrior" it actually made tactical sense. As for which admiral flew which ship: Commodore Wesley had a standard-looking Constitution-of-the-line and seemed to command her personally. Hanson at Wolf 359 supposedly was aboard the Melbourne, which was either Excelsior or Nebula class (both identifications rely on barely glimpsed visuals) - but what was the dialogue on this again? Nechayev's command ship Gorkon was identified as an Excelsior only in the Encyclopedia, and might have been an early Sovereign for all we know unless somebody can come up with an Okudagram that says differently. Hayes' ship was never identified as anything but "destroyed". Was Ross really aboard the supposedly Intrepid class Bellerephon in any of the DS9 battles? [/qb][/QUOTE]We all know that Intrepids are invincible, so it would make tactical sense. :D As Starfleet's policy is to throw all their ships in at once, with little or no protective formations, wouldn't it make sense for the Admiral commanding to be on a big sturdy ship? I think that the Bellerophon was just temporary, and that the Melbourne was a Nebula, so I can sort of believe that Admirals do pick decent ships sometimes. This leads me to hope that the Prometheus shown in Endgame was the flagship and had an Admiral on it (hopefully it wasn't the useless Bonchune). Now I think of it, why was Sisko commanding a fleet of 600 in the battle to retake DS9? Was there really that much of an Admiral shortage? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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