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Ode to the Antares-Class by CaptainMike
The untold decades pass Empires fall in the void so vast With everything changing, on what could we rely? What stone to hold onto, what security in the changing sky? What common thread could these eras together tie Then we realize what links all of these casts A ship called the Antares-class
Improbable you say, what could this magic thing be? A ship unhindered by bounds of design, lineage or fleet Moving from Empire to Empire and even through all of the Quadrants A design so magical that its design must be too complex to be glimps'd Could it be a freighter? A humble cargo transport? Would it be a fighter? With fifty men in a scaled version of some sort? Is it owned by Terrans, Bajorans or Talarians? Why is the Delta Quadrant home to some of its variants? The design is ever-present, like the versions used by the Maquis Or does it refer to the old freighter from V?
The scholars of ship design all shake their fists in anger. "We curse you, and your half-hearted "Charlie-X" homage, Naren Shanker!" They all wonder, why would Bajorans use old Starfleet ships? And why would old Starfleet freighters look like nacho chips? Why couldn't they keep track that that wasnt the ship in "Face of the Enemy?" Perhaps the Romulans made an error in keeping track of miscellany. When they refrred to the Corvallen's ship as an Antares Thereby cassifying the Batris and Xhosa and all of these
And Jeri Taylor doesnt know a freighter from fighter full of castaways. She displayed her error in the novel "Pathways" She doesn't write the show anymore, but her mistake lives in our heart. All of the Maquis raiders are somehow like the ship commanded by Captain Ramart? The models get recycled, their parts we are rearranging The producers, their idea of continuity always changing Now we have a single name for dozens of our spacecraft I can only throw back my head and laugh Whenever it is explained, I think it isn't true To know the answer, I think I do
The untold decades pass Empires fall in the void so vast And ALL starships belong to the Antares-class
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That is one of the funnier--& SADDER--things I've seen in a while.
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thank you.
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