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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Triton: [QB] I agree with the others who have posted before me, I think that the design is much too small for the [i]Deneva[/i]-class. The design should be used for a, relatively, small utility freighter, maybe to replenish ammunition or consummables for a platoon of troops or a small colony or scientific base/expedition? Perhaps a replenishment carrier for a small base like the duck blind mission in [i]Star Trek: Insurrection[/i]. Regarding the size of the [i]Deneva[/i]-class and its small crew compliment,I think its fine. I would assume that a cargo container freighter like this would be heavily automated and would mostly travel routes where it would not encounter hostile starships. It wouldn't need more than the bare minimum crew. I am thinking of the [i]USCSS Nostomo[/i] tug from [i]Alien[/i] , not the refinery that it pulled. If the freighter was travelling through a combat zone or an area with a high cargo piracy rate, then one or more federation starships, like [i]Defiant[/i] or [i]Intrepid[/i]-class starships, that would have to accompany it like the Atlantic Convoys during World War II. By the way, I am really surprised that no has posted a huge container ship, like a fleet replenishment carrier, ultra large container ship, or Acturan Mega-freighter from [i]Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/i], that is designed to carry consummables, fuel, or munitions to a fleet of starships or a star base. Something that is two or three times larger than any Starfleet starship we have ever seen. May be it could also be used as an emergency evacuation ship for a starbase or colony, or used as a colony transport. Something that would have been ideal when that colony needed to be relocated on that world that belonged to the Sheliak Corporate. I am thinking of a container ship/freighter that would be capable of transporting a colony with say 60,000 people with consummables and their possessions or hundreds of cargo containers. This ship would be say 1,254 meters in length, about the size of the Son'a Collector ship, and have a maximum velocity of Warp 5 or 6. Because of its mass, let's give it horrible acceleration rates and slow impulse speeds. But this low performance wouldn't matter because this is not a warship, its designed to carry lots of stuff, and it wouldn't need to respond to emergencies. Because the freighter would be so large and barge like, perhaps the RCS system on the ship wouldn't be able to handle manuevaring of the ship into a space dock or starbase and would need the help of large port tugs that would need to dock or latch onto it at various points on its hull. Or maybe the cargo would need to be offloaded in space to a smaller cargo carrier or lighter, which would then deliver the cargo to a space dock or other orbital facility. Design wise, I am thinking something that would look very utilatarian and have all the beauty and elegance of a diesel locomotive. Think of a cross between the [i]Typhon[/i]-class carrier from the [i]Star Trek: Invasion![/i] game, the [i]Battlestar Galactica[/i], and a modern day dry-goods/refrigerated container ship, with cargo containers stacked and attached (latched with docking clamps) to the outside of the ship's hull. It would be like a wideand long brick with four Warp nacelles attached to it. Compared to the [i]Sovereign[/i]-class it would be ugly, ugly, ugly. But it would be something that the Federation and Starfleet would desperately be needing. If I were willing to design the specifications and write a history of theses starships like the recent [i]Starship Spotter[/i], for example the specification and descriptions of the [i]Isolde[/i]-class ultra-large capacity container ship or the [i]Foss[/i]-class port tug, could you draw something like this with the intention of placing it on the [i]Jornal of Applied Treknology[/i] Web site? I would have participated long ago in things like JoAT and Advanced Starship Design Bureau, but I cannot draw to save my life and didn't want to give Bernd my doodles. If not, that would be cool too. By the way Reverend, continue to keep up the good work, I like your designs very much. :cool: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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