Starship Classes and real-life counterparts

posted on February 4th, 2010, 7:54 pm

Ah, sorry 

posted on February 4th, 2010, 8:09 pm

The only one that comes to mind was the Olympic Class Ocean Liners built by Harland & Wolff at the turn of the last century. Coincidentally, of the two that didn't have an unfortunate encounter with an iceberg, both served as Hospital ships throughout WW1.

posted on February 10th, 2010, 7:49 pm

soemthing that bugged me about Archers ENTERPRISE. 

if it was NX-01,  shouldn't those (akaira looking) ships be the Enterprise class?

posted on February 10th, 2010, 8:15 pm

No. Similar look doesn't make it the sameclass and the Registry worked different back in the Earth Starfleet. NX was general rather than class prototype.

posted on February 10th, 2010, 10:21 pm

No. Similar look doesn't make it the sameclass and the Registry worked different back in the Earth Starfleet. NX was general rather than class prototype.

i know the similar look thing, but the Columbia should have been considdered an Enterprise class ship.  i dont recall any mention of it being that way, for or against.

and as for the NX thing, are you stating (the above in bold) that as FACT or opinion.  if it is fact, where are you getting that from?

[Tyler]

posted on February 10th, 2010, 11:29 pm

Last edited by Tyler on February 10th, 2010, 11:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Obseravtion. 2 ships of the same class, only 1 was the first of the class and both used NX. Earth Starfleet ships haven't been seen with NCC.

The 'NX-Prototype - NCC-Everthing else' registry rule was a Federation Starfleet concept, Earth Starfleet is seperate from that.

The fact that ES has a ship class not named after the first one also implies they do things a little differently.

posted on February 15th, 2010, 10:19 am

btw, there is a USS constitution

USS Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

posted on February 15th, 2010, 2:03 pm

I said that earilier but no one was paying attention to me

posted on February 16th, 2010, 4:56 pm

US Naval officer recruites still go and play pirate on the USS Constitution.  it is still considdered to be part of the US fleet. 
(Discovery channel & History channel are awesome )

so all you nucular powered subs beware, there is a couple hundred year old wooden ship out there.  tread lightly 

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:00 pm

They still ahve a ship like that in use? Wow... if World War 3 happens, Americas enemies will have to watch out for Splinters. Those things sting.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:04 pm

Ohio Class
Georgia Class
Washington Class

All of these are real classes of submarines. I can only imagine what some would look like.

posted on February 16th, 2010, 5:34 pm

They still ahve a ship like that in use? Wow... if World War 3 happens, Americas enemies will have to watch out for Splinters. Those things sting.

its mainly there to be used as a training ship.

nothing prepares you for modern warfare and serving on a state of the art Air Craft Carrier that does night operations and landings like SAILING a WOODEN boat.

i believe it is more of a "this is how it all started" kinda thing,  broaden horizions and whatnot.

remembering the past to prepare you for the future kinda thang.