Or the Prometheus middle section, depending on how you look at it.
This is really ticking me off. Paramount is totally unoriginal. Anyway, the bridge is similar to the Prometheus. It also has a nice looking Master Situation Display at the back (quick, screen shot!). It also gets the snot beat out of it
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That was my first thought: the Defiant pathfinder. I disagree on the originality complaint. I think the pathfinder is a cool design and would love to see it on screen. I will take that anyday. The Relativity was original but I didn't care for it.
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The USS Equinox is seen briefly in the preview for the next episode. Size- Smaller than the USS Voyager (a shot shows the USS Equinox next to the USS Voyager) Nacelles- Like those of the Sovereign Class Those are the points I am able to make.
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No, it's defnitely the Defiant Pathfinder. Look at this one.
And what does this mean? All together now:
THEY'VE SCREWED UP AGAIN!!!
I wonder how they did it. . . did they decide at the last minute they couldn't be bothered with designing a new ship, and pick that throwaway piece of sh*te from the DS9TM at random, or was it a case of "oh, we need some ship to use as a, hem hem, 'Defiant Pathfinder' to pad out the section on the Defiant in the DS9TM - ooh, let's use this one."
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I think that with all the fan-made Nova classes out there, this is the best choice to avoid the possibility of a fan claiming that his/her design is stolen.
It's a very cool design. The front of the saucer looks even better than the original Pathfinder design.
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Yes, there ARE differences. The end result is more like a mini-Sovereign than anything else. . . but I thought this ship had been in the DQ longer than Yoyager? All the details suggest a pretty new ship, such as the fancy nacelles that evryone has theorized do the same job as variable-geometry ones. . .
It all comes down to the age of Janeway's hip. I believe that Voyager had already been in service a while, that this wasn't her maiden cruise - why? Because Tuvok knows too much about the ship, he couldn't have been told to infiltrate the Maquis just after getting the job.
And you think it might have been mentioned at one point or another that one of those cool new Nova-class ships had also vanished in the Badlands, at a time of relative peace with Cardassia and before the Dominion raised their ugly heads and disappearing ships became just another topic of conversation on DS9:
Sisko: "Hello there, crew!"
Crew: "Hey Captain!"
Sisko: "How's it going?"
Crew: "Bad."
Sisko: "Why bad?"
Crew: "We just heard the Heinbuch vanished near Cardassian space."
Sisko: "Oh, well, it wasn't a very good ship anyway."
(sorry Adam)
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Altair: good point (you posted while I was writing) - no-one comes forward and complained that the Defiant Pathfinder is like their own Nova design (and how could it? Most of them were crosses between the Ambassador and the Galaxy anyway) so it should let them off the hook.
Ultimately, of course, we'll all decide that the Defiant Pathfinder design was later turned from a warship technology testbed into a science vessel. . . but still, I suspect they've just been lazy and haven't thought it through.
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How'd the Equinox get so far ahead in the Delta Quadrant? Voyager has, been pushed 10,000 lightyears by Kes before she left crossing 10 years worth of space in a seconds, used Quantum Slipstream twice, and a Borg transwarp coil. Voyager has used all sorts of methods to get where she is in the Delta Quadrant and it's unlikely that a ship like the Equinox which seems relativitly new (considering the uniforms they wear it must of been sometime around Generations when all of Starfleet began wearing those jumpsuits) could be that far into the quadrant unless it found a wormhole or grabbed some alien warp technology very superior to Federation technology.
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