Well I like the idea, but I think that its not the ship thats legendary, its the crew
U could also say this for the defiant, but it was destroyed and then they made another and it performed just as good as the previous one
So anyway I like this idea but it would be great if instead of ships you could do this for the crew


Oh and just 1 more thing, when the ship(crew) dies in battle that should then have a negative effect on your other ships, doubt thats possible, but thats the way it should work

Well the thing is, that some ships do stand out of a crowd, saying all ships are the same is not true, just look at current time military I doubt all the Abramses are the same strenght, there are a lot of factors which decide. Like how fast can loader load the new shell, how acuratly can the gunner shoot, how fast can commander aquire a target,.... But in its basic design all of the abramses are the same and all of the crew are trained in the same way, but still there are things that makes some crews stand up

Same can be said for the hero ships, these are simply ships with better crew, but basically same ship as there already are in their fleets

And whether the ship and its crew are actually better than others - their reputation is sure to have an effect on other crews.

Think less in Federation terms, maybe, but perhaps in Klingon ones.
Imagine you're the commander of a bird of prey, and on the losing end of a battle, when suddenly General Martok's cruiser arrives at the edge of the battle, blasting away at the enemies. The crew cheers, maybe breaks out into a war song (okay, that might or might not happen, but imagining is fun) and the desperate Klingon forces, reinspired, regroup for another assault.

True, Federation crews are at a pretty high standard altogether, but I think even among them are more and less experienced crews (and captains) which will react positively to a "famous" vessel in the area.
EDIT: And I DO believe the Enterprise holds the best crew in Starfleet. She's the flagship, and one of the most advanced ships in the fleet, and she'll be in some most important missions, why not crew her with the best they've got?

Or having some Admiral's ship in the area, acting as a command ship, giving orders to the fleet to use the resources at hand most effectively will have a similar effect. Yes, it could even be built into a whole class of 'command cruisers', as which Galaxy, Sovereign, D'deridex, Negh'Var and similar classes often act.

EDIT: And Baron is certainly right that the crew is important, not the ship, but it's MUCH easier that way. and "I'm Captain Picard of the USS Florence" or whatever doesn't have the same ring to it.
MORE EDIT: Maybe they'll just do it like with the Enterprise-A or the Defiant... take some ship of the same class, spray-paint a new name and registry on it, voilá, we have our hero ship back. (Or, in FleetOps: just build/call in a new one) And we can assume that even if the ship is destroyed, our her crew always gets out of there in time...    

Hero ships create unbalance, to have a Sovern more powerful then another Sovern or a BoP more powerful then another BoP is senseless. If they are put in I request a toggle so I can turn them off.

I still want a toggle, god help you all if theres no toggle.

It still makes no sense, all races have some experianced and unexperianced crews.

To make a single ship with more hull points when we know it doesn't have a stronger hull is unrealistic and could potentially ruin gameplay. Same for weapons, shields, crew number, propulsion, sensor range...If you throw this in it might ruin the mod. I can't stress enough how mad i'd be to lose 5 Rhiens to a single Sovern because it's registeries are Enterprise 1701 - E.

I don't want a flagship. If I had a Valdore for example, I would want it just as powerful as the rest as it SHOULD be already.