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Posted by Soontir_Fel on :

I was watching Emissary a few days ago and noticed that during Sisko's time in his messy quarters, there was an Oberth-class starship outside the window. Granted, this ship took one, maybe two hits, and was vaped by the cube.

My question is this: Why did Starfleet have an Oberth at the Battle of Wolf 359 (don't tell me I already asked this in the subject line)? It's a science vessel! It's for research, not combat! What was SF thinking.

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Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

It is also used as a specialized cargo carrier, technical transport. It could have been making a delivery of weapons that were being worked on at UP and an off loading error cost them the ship. Bad timing, or they thought the E-D would stop the Borg before hand, so they lolligagged....

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

My line of reasoning was that since they needed every ship in the area, and an Oberth was one of those ships, she was sent into combat. It's better to have one extra ship than none at all, even though she may not be able to do much.

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Posted by colin (Member # 217) on :

Another question-
why is the Oberth moving in a parallel direction to the cube, presenting the starship's port side to the weapons of the Borg?

The Oberth class starship is hit by a single beam on the port side, somewhere between the warp nacelle and the connecting pylon.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Um, random chance?

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Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Well, there could be several reasons

1. Its a ship close by.
2. It might be housing an 'experimental weapon'?
3. It was there for primarily ramming reasons.

4. It could also show us the state of the Federation at the time.

a. It could show that at the time - things had been relatively peaceful (which they had) and that a majority of Federation ships were out there... way out there exploring (like the Olympia) It was lucky that the Enterprise - which was on its way 'out there' got called back to Earth in Season 1 and had Romulan and Klingon matters to attend to, which allowed it to be 'close by' when the Borg finally arrived.

b. Maybe the 'fleet' that Shelby?? Mentioned about getting back up to full strength is a 'reserve' fleet that is to deal with primarily 'core world' matters, and that for so long there hand been any deep penetrations into the heart of the Federation that it had Oberths assigned to a 'core world fleet'. After BOBW, all the ships started coming back 'home'. PLUS newer ships were built AND older ships were brought out of retirement and 'experimental ships' were back on the agenda. I.e. the Norways/Defiants etc.

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Posted by Soontir_Fel on :

I thought I read somewhere that an Oberth's standard armament is two light phasers for navigational debris clearing. Maybe in one of the William Shatner books.

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Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :

Core world fleet? That makes sense, since only 40 ships were present in a few hours notice. Then in DS9, starfleet was able to mass a fleet of over 600 ships.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

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