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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Red Admiral: [QB] Owing to a point I brought up about the Hermes Class in Designs, Artwork and Creativity, I stumbled across a point possibly worth discussing. I stated that I had to slightly alter my Saladin mesh to create the Hermes, because the two are identical except for the Hermes lacks the Saladin's armaments. The point was: why was the Hermes Class given a classification unto itself? Why wasn't it simply a 'Saladin variant'. This is something I've been thinking over. So I said "Perhaps Starfleet has radically changed its classification system, for it would seem to support the argument that in the 23rd century and before, even slight changes to a ship warranted a new classification, such as the Bonhomme Richard Class, etc" Perhaps, as Topher suggested this might after all bring forward the evidence required to support the 'Enterprise Class' theory. Although I still have doubts about that. In the 24th century there are certain ships within the same class which are just called 'variants', but which are the same class. Such the 5 Nebula variants, some quite different -yet they're all Nebula Class. There'a also two Nova variants, two Ambassador variants, some horrid Intrepid variants, possibly two Springfield variants, two Excelsior variants, two Danubes, and multiple Miranda variants. Yet these are all classified as variants, not individual classes. But, in the 23rd century it's slightly different... Soyuz Class gets it's own name. If this had been in the 24th century it might well have been called just another Miranda variant, perhaps even if it was a one-off ship. The smallest possible change to the Saladin and you have Hermes Class. The smallest possible change to the Constitution and you have Bonhomme Richard Class (semi-canon). There are also the DS9 kitbashes to consider, quite different from any class, yet they're called hybrid kitbashes, not individual classes, or 'sub classes'. This is all perhaps worth thinking about, at least. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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