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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Lemme, lemme - here's my take on this: [b]Yeager class:[/b] A ship built to perform the same mission as the Intrepid class, with swinging wings supporting the same warp engines, and with planetary landing capability. However, a somewhat lighter variant, like a Miranda to the Constitutions - the big deflector and the voluminous secondary hull are missing, while the impulse engines and various weapons are more prominent. I'd call both the Yeagers and the Intrepids light cruisers and suggest a reconaissance and exploration role. [b]All those Galaxy variants from "BoBW":[/b] Purpose-built ships with either short operational radius (the Freedom, at least) or then an independent extremely long range and high speed mission (Challenger, Niagara), meaning these ships won't be seen anywhere near the regular Starfleet. Except for the New Orleanses, Cheyennes and Springfields, which are absent from the DS9 war merely by sheer coincidence of the camera being turned the wrong way... No experimental ships or prototypes there. [b]All those Excelsior study models from "BoBW":[/b] Either testbeds, or then any of the unseen ship classes with registries between 10000 and 50000. I suggest that the ugliest are testbeds while the prettiest are "real ships" like Hokule'a class cruisers or Apollo or Merced class starships of unknown type. [b]The Centaur:[/b] An Excelsior-era light warship, a frigate perhaps. The saucer is smaller than the Excelsior hull. A series-production vessel, perhaps of Renaissance class, not a kitbash. [b]The Curry:[/b] A) Another light ship, built on the same small saucer as the Centaur, and with regular Constitution-style engines (I think hulls are easier to build in varying scales than engines). The ship is a cargo pod carrier, and the thing that looked like an Excelsior secondary hull was just one possible cargo pod. Perhaps Mediterranean class, as suggested. B) A relatively heavy ship, built on the Excelsior saucer and up-scaled Constitution-style engines. Still a cargo pod carrier, and the thing hanging between the nacelles is all that remains of an unlucky Excelsior - the Curry is simply hauling the wreckage home, and the "bow shuttlebay" is just combat repairs to seal the hole left by the missing neck. [b]The rest of the Frankenstein Fleet:[/b] The three-naceller is IMHO quite tolerable when you turn her upside down (easy to do, for obvious reasons) and shorten the third pylon (which I think is incorrectly drawn in the image anyway). This could be any of the 10k-50k starship classes, possibly the Hokule'a class cruiser (doesn't it look just like the sort of ship that would find Data and then fail to find out ANYTHING relevant about the Crystalline Entity?). Perhaps the third nacelle is a Frankensteinian addition to an otherwise regular ship? The Constitution saucer with two nacelles could be a kitbash, built out of wreckage to serve as a special weapons platform (plenty of those in D-Day, mind you). Or then a real TOS movie era design that was retired along with the Constitutions, with this one individual surviving for reason X. We know of very few classes from the TOS movie era, canonically. There's room for one more. The Intrepid and Constitution kitbash is a monster, and if it exists, it ought to be either a testbed or perhaps another "flying bomb" that can barely move at warp. The tug is of Klingon origin. Starfleet doesn't believe in tools that look like Darth Vader's torture droid or Edward Scissorhands. Their tugs may be utilitarian, but the manipulators and whatnot on those tugs will be aesthetically pleasing and devoid of sharp hooklike things. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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