What Is Your Favorite Class Of Ship

posted on February 3rd, 2005, 3:08 am

A capital ship is technically a ship which no ship of inferior class has a hope of being victorious over. This distinction was blurred around WW 1 with the introduction of "battlecruisers" but these ships are still considered "capital" because most cruisers would get wasted fighting them. Typical ST battlecruisers in my opinion are Nebula, Vorcha, D'Deridex, MAYBE Keldon, probably not, Spheres perhaps, etc. Anything smaller is NOT a capital ship.

posted on February 3rd, 2005, 4:01 am

Every ship not designated as a fighter or freighter is a capital ship, lol.

posted on February 6th, 2005, 7:40 pm

ok, going to another direction of the topic...i think the sphere has the best tactical design, shields are always buble formed and and the sphere uses that form perfectly. also is it was equipped with a phaser array horizontally, it would have 360 degrees coverage

posted on February 6th, 2005, 10:46 pm

Agreed, I think a giant sphere would have worked better then a giant cube, basically switch both their sizes and roles and the Borg would have been more effective.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 3:58 pm

That is true of course
Funny the borg dont know that, since they are trying to achieve perfection and in their quest the assimilated thousands of races, and still noone seems to know that

[KL0K]

posted on February 7th, 2005, 4:12 pm

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maybe its not even needed, and a possible "next stage" of their designs.
remember, there are different types of spheres. the sphere that act like shuttles or escape pods (seen in first contact). then the spheres of that type like 1000 drones on it (seen in the last episode of voyager the one that followed them) and the bigger ones with _40.000_ drones on it, seen i one episode of voyager with the borg queen.

so they got different sizes and strenghts..

Edit: btw. its more effective actually. cause they need the space of the cubes for the ports of the drones. if i remember correctly the queen said once that they got 100.000 drones on a bigger cube. and u cant get that much on the same size of a sphere caused by the lack of needed space.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 8:18 pm

Or maybe there is a borg ship we haven't seen yet, a giant sphere with million if not billions on board.

[Anonymous]

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:15 pm

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Firepower and manuverability is how their fairly equal. Galaxy has more rear and side firing weapons while the D'deridex has cloak and slightly more armor.

If you remember an old ST game called 'The Final Unity' riker points out that a warbird is alot larger than a galaxy, and, in the cimamatic, the galaxy looked to be about half the size of the warbird.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:28 pm

Yes but D'deridex has alot of open space on board, and it actually is missing space from the middle, so while it looks real big it's realy not.

[Anonymous]

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:32 pm

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Yes but D'deridex has alot of open space on board, and it actually is missing space from the middle, so while it looks real big it's realy not.

Hmm, good point...

EDIT: Also, I don't know if this is true to the storyline, but the galaxy only carries photon torps and the warbird, adv. photon torps, also have to remember that the warbird has disrupters mounted on the wings.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:36 pm

Never heard of an advanced photon torpedo. It carries plasma torpedos but maybe some sort of photon torpedo also, most likely alot like the federations, like the klingons got.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:48 pm

Well, like I said, I didn't know if it was true to the storyline. I only remember hearing it from somewhere.

posted on February 7th, 2005, 11:53 pm

They have so called advanced photons in BC, which is full of screw ups. I think they called them that because saying 'AdvTorpedo' is shorter then saying 'Torpedo alot like the Federations except slightly redder and maybe a little less power'.

posted on February 8th, 2005, 12:01 am

Here a quote off the Star Trek website databank for Warbirds:

The largest and most powerful of Romulan spacecraft, first detected in late 2364 by the Federation in the first Romulan meeting in 53 years.
Nearly twice the length overall of a Galaxy-class Federation starship, this vessel used an artificial quantum singularity to power its warp-drive system. Decks are lettered and sections numbered. Some quarters are on C deck; Launch Bay 3 is on Deck E, Section 25. It carries at least three shuttlecraft areas, known as "Launching Bays." Even through a cloak, warp signature may be detected at speeds above warp 6.

And heres the link: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/libr...icle/70474.html

So, overall, its twice the length.

posted on February 8th, 2005, 12:17 am

Um last time I checked the borg don't have phasers : ) but yes it makes more sense to have spherical ships, or at least ellipsoid ships if you're worried about geometric cross section to evade enemy fire or something.