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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shipbuilder: [QB] Granted the Sovereign was probably not intended to be a battlesihp when designs were drawn up, but I think its fair to say she's a better-equipped battleship than any other Starfleet design (possibly excluding purpose built Defiants). I was fishing through the DS9TM again and ran across a blurb about special weapons and equipment designed for the Sovereign class starship (in the phasers section of the book) and got to thinking about something. Similar to how the U.S. Navy in recent years has drifted away from blue water operations and into the littorals...I wonder if Sternbach and the others were thinking about expeditionary syle warfare when they wrote the TM? Facts: We have a massive starship that is armed to the teeth now with quantums, photons, phasers, and close range point (not necessairly "point" but you get the idea) defense launchers, wheeled vehicles that ride inside dropship style shuttles, the INS type shuttles (which BTW are probably the Danube class successors mentioned in the TM which more than likely turned out to supplement rather than replace), and pulse phaser rifles. To me, this points to a Starfleet that's decided it needed to bulk up and be prepared to go planetside (space littorals I suppose)if they were going to win decisevly in future conflicts. The question is, who were they preparing for? The Borg probably drove many of the weapons systems that were installed during development, but certainly not the planetary operations equipment that was introduced. Maybe there was a lot of weaknesses revealed during the Klingon-Cardassian-UFP conflict and later the Dominion War which obviously had some ground combat occuring. Regardless, I think it would be interesting to see some thoughts put down on paper as to the Sovvie's and her outfitted gear's purpose. I wonder how long in advance Sternbach turns in his technial briefs to STMAG before they are printed....wish he could squeeze in a brief on the Sovereign before the end. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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