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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Irishman: [qb] So, my question still stands. Why do so many races in Trek build such friggin' huge ships if it's such a liability? [/qb][/QUOTE]That depends greatly on the race building the uber-ship. The Romulans likely use their cow D'Derix class as psychological arfare while maintaining a larger fleet of less impressive ships withing their own borders (fuck, they must have [i]something[/i] between the miniscule science/scouts and the Warbird/Valdore). The Dominion builds uber-ships that can ebgage several enemy capital ships at once (and we never saw anything larger than their smallest ship destroyed! That speaks volumes). The Klingons dont build many huge ships- the Neg Var is the biggest but we've never seen two of those at any given time, so they're either very new, very rare or both. The Cardassians have nothing bigger than the Excelsior-sized Galor/Keldon class. (though the -video game only- Hutet class is very cool- it's intended for planetary occupation more than anything else) Annnnd...that's [i]it[/i] for the major powers. Mainly, it's the Federation that builds the largest ships at any given time- the rest of the major powers either try to keep up or just settle for smaller (as their ecomomies dictate). The Borg have the biggest ships around, but those are like mobile starbases or colonies- on a whole diffrent scale and function than a starship. Personally, I dont care much for gigantic city-ships, unless the purpose is to explore and colonize as they go from system to system. Besides, just the size is threatening- imagine a first contact seanrio wherein the unknown race parks it's uber-ship over your homeworld (and something as large as your Titan would be readily visible to the population on a clear night- possibly causing panic, despite any messages of peace.). From a writing P.O.V., larger hero ships only lead to the need for even [i]larger[/i] bad-guys, untill you end up with a [i]Dragonball Z[/i] formula of getting beaten by some unstoppable menace, then the heroes become even stronger and beat [i]them[/i],over and over ad nauseum.... I'd love to see the design scaled down and with all views represented though. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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