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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] I am thinking that the [i]U.S.S. Titan[/i] would be some large explorer starship class because Deanna would be the ship's counselor on Riker's new command. Why can't this ship be a new [i]Sovereign[/i]-class explorer? Riker said it wasn't the [i]Enterprise[/i], he didn't say it wasn't a [i]Sovereign[/i]-class. I thought that his comment was related to leaving Picard and his friends behind, not about the inadequacies or incapabilities of his new command. If there is a Star Trek XI with Jonathan Frakes as Captain Riker, I hope that they make the [i]Titan[/i] a new explorer class that is between the [i]Intrepid[/i] and [i]Sovereign[/i]in size. I think it would be sad to give him an older explorer design. I'm not inclined to think that it would be a [i]Galaxy[/i]-class starship because Geordi was captain of the [i]Galaxy[/i]-class [i]U.S.S. Challenger[/i] in that[i]Voyager[/i] episode "Timeless". So if the [i]Titan[/i] needs to be an existing explorer design that we have seen, I would be inclined to think that it was a [i]Nebula[/i] class. As for the idea of a [i]Prometheus[/i]-class [i]U.S.S. Titan[/i], I think its not only a bad idea, it is absurd one. Rick Sternbach mentioned that the [i]Prometheus[/i] was a one off ship design and so he didn't get bent out of shape when there was the registry mistake at the FX department. Which I interpreted as meaning that there is only one of this type in the whole of Starfleet. Further, I personally think that the idea of a "multi-vector attack mode" starship is a recipe for disaster. In order for the three pieces of the ship to be combat capable and survive an engagement, each piece would need to have its own power plant, navigation/control system, targeting system, life support, and other redundant systems. Does each piece have its own warp core? Or does it use some power cell or battery? If it uses a battery, how many minutes or hours can it engage in combat? After you add all that machinery into each piece, where do you have room for weapon systems, such as torpedo storage? It seems to me that you could only have three small and mediocre starships attached together to make one vehicle the size of the [i]Prometheus[/i]. Also, how well are the three pieces latched together during normal non-combat operations. Could the docking clamps shear away due to stress of the space frames or the ship fly apart at warp speeds? Although I see some fans rave endlessly about this ship, I think that Rick Sternbach designed a rather silly and very [b]ugly[/b] looking starship. I think that Starfleet would be much better off building three separate starships. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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