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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The 430m size seems pretty well established now, so the Freedom is pretty big for a "low-end" ship... But it's all relative anyway. And I'd just love to go by the rationale that Greg Jein no doubt used as well: the Freedom is to mid-24th century what the Saladin was to the mid- to late 23rd. Which, according to FJ, is indeed "low-end warship", or destroyer. And don't go yelling "It's 100% noncanon" here. It's a sad Trek fact that the role of a starship cannot be discerned from its external appearances, so the noncanon train of thought is all we have. And all the modelmakers themselves had. If it is "modelmaker canon" that single -nacellers are destroyers, then so be it, even if we could find no rationale to it. Not that we couldn't. A single nacelle is less of a loss in combat than two nacelles. A single hull, OTOH, already carries all the essentials of a starship. An attrition warship could very well "logically" look like the Freedom. And remove the badass torpedo tubes, and you have got this "scout" or "courier" variant, which makes limited sense but is "FJ/modelmaker canon" nevertheless. I'd be ready to postulate a torp-less Hermes/Cygnus type of ship to accompany the Freedom, and to assign this design to one of the known unseens of the era. Andromeda class, perhaps (the Prokofiev scouted around...)? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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