Post A Reply
my profile
|
directory
login
|
search
|
faq
|
forum home
»
Flare Sci-Fi Forums
»
Star Trek
»
Starships & Technology
»
Ambassador class speculation.
» Post A Reply
Post A Reply
Login Name:
Password:
Message:
HTML is enabled.
UBB Code™ is enabled.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] Well we could probably write volumes coming up with a reasonable fiction explanation for the no-appearance of the [i]Ambassor[/i]-class in the fleet sequences of [i]Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[/i]. One of the reasons that I was thinking of is that members of the class were being used on other fronts of the war. Doesn't Ross command the eighth fleet? So you begin to wonder which ships constitute fleets 1-7. or if there are even more than 8 fleets and what ship classes constitute these fleets. Because early in the war the characters talk about heavy ship losses, Bashir in particular, perhaps the [i]Ambassador[/i]-class ships didn't fare very well in their engagements and were destroyed. I think that the idea that the [i]Yamaguichi/Enterprise-C[/i] minature was damaged could very well be the reason why we didn't see it. Also time and budget constraints always seem to effect which things we see in an episode. We would also probably be remarking about how "cheesy" the [i]Niagara[/i], [i]Springfield[/i], and [i]Challenger[/i]-class models look if they ever appeared again in a Trek episode. By the way, I was surprised at the number and quality of the space battles we did see during the run of DS9 because of the expense of special effects. Maybe another reason why we didn't see the [i]Ambassador[/i]-class was just simply for a dramatic or storytelling reason. You cannot very well say in dialogue that the war is not going well for the Federation, ship losses are high, and that most of the Federation's ship building facitilities are damaged and incapable of replacing the ships that have been lost, and then show a fleet composed entirely of "contemporary" and powerful explorer classes or ships-of-the-line. I think that it makes the Federation's plight much more desperate worrisome if you add several ancient [i]Miranda[/i]-class and [i]Excelsior[/i]-class vessels, and kitbash variants of the [i]Constitution[/i] and [i]Excelsior[/i] classes, and deploy them as frontline warships in the fleet. If we had seen the Eighth Fleet composed of more "contemporary" and powerful starship classes, may be we would be writing threads asking why did Sisko need to act the way he did "In the Pale Moonlight" to get the Romulans to commit themselves to the Dominion war effort? [/QB][/QUOTE]
Instant Graemlins
Instant UBB Code™
What is UBB Code™?
Options
Disable Graemlins in this post.
*** Click here to review this topic. ***
© 1999-2024 Charles Capps
Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3