Aventine the new flagship?

[Rowan Sjet]

I didn't intend this thread to turn into a debate concerning the proper use of the term flagship. I meant it more as a thread to ask the question if the technologies that the Vesta-class posessed would make the rest of the fleet obsolete and/or the rest of the fleet would soon be in drydocks and fitted with the new technologies when they were deemed to be stable and operational.

Well why didn't you say so?

Yes, I can imagine that within the next few years, any and all ships that can be outfitted with the slipstream drive will have it installed, and the rest moved to small support roles or retired from service.

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

Allyn Gibson wrote:

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"After saving every planet in the known universe a minimum of seventeen times, I have decided to retire."

"Dalek bumps."

[Timo]

I would assume that it's in tribute to the fact that without the United Earth Ship Enterprise NX-01, neither the Coalition of Planets nor the United Federation of Planets would have been established

Does Trek-lit really have it that all the Enterprises are flagships?

I mean, we don't know about NX-01 one way or another onscreen, as regards UE Starfleet, and she seems to be retired before there's a UFP Starfleet. Kirk's ships never seemed to carry that nomer, and we saw too little of the -B and -C to tell whether the lack of such mention was evidence of absence or just absence of evidence. Only the -D and -E have been established as ships of flagship status outside lit.

Timo Saloniemi

[Sci]

Timo wrote:

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Does Trek-lit really have it that all the Enterprises are flagships?

I mean, we don't know about NX-01 one way or another onscreen, as regards UE Starfleet, and she seems to be retired before there's a UFP Starfleet. Kirk's ships never seemed to carry that nomer, and we saw too little of the -B and -C to tell whether the lack of such mention was evidence of absence or just absence of evidence. Only the -D and -E have been established as ships of flagship status outside lit.

Timo Saloniemi

Trek Lit has never established any ships other than the D and E as Federation flagships. That previous Federation starships Enterprise have been flagships is my interpretation.

[trekkerguy]

Sci wrote:

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Trek Lit has never established any ships other than the D and E as Federation flagships. That previous Federation starships Enterprise have been flagships is my interpretation.

I'll second that.

[Hartzilla2007]

trekkerguy wrote:

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I'll second that.

Um The Enterprsie NCC-1701 was refered to as the Federation Flagship in part one of the first book of the Badlands Duology.

[ProwlAlpha]

Also, in the novelization of Relics, the Enterprise was referred as the Federation Flagship.

[Timo]

So that'd leave only the -A, -B and -C as undefined in lit, right?

Or are there books to suggest that those were flagships at some point, too?

Timo Saloniemi

[JoeZhang]

In the sonic shower, she thought about the challenges facing John. As captain of the Federation flagship, one of the most powerful vessels in the fleet

From Lost Era: Serpent amongst the ruins

"The Great Captain Rachel Garrett. Commander of the illustrious Enterprise, the flagship of Starfleet."

from Lost Era: Well of Souls

[Timo]

So now we're down to -A, right? That is, this wasn't the ship described either in the "Relics" novelization or in Badlands?

We can argue minutiae after that: at which point during her career would each ship have held this flagship status?

Timo Saloniemi

[JoeZhang]

Timo wrote:

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So now we're down to -A, right? That is, this wasn't the ship described either in the "Relics" novelization or in Badlands?

We can argue minutiae after that: at which point during her career would each ship have held this flagship status?

Timo Saloniemi

Do you want to make things complex first? :-)

Kirk noted that the Vulcan hid her own disappointment well, as she did her disapproval that Starfleet's flagship had been relegated to providing a civilian with taxi service. That's not how Captain Sulu had viewed Kirk's request for a favor, but Kirk understood how others might see it.

From Federation.

[JoeZhang]

There is no reference in any TOS novel to the Enterprise-A being a flagship, there are multiple references to flagships belonging to various admirals but that's it.

[Clawhammer]

I think, even though the Aventine is one of the largest and one of the most advanced ships of the fleet, it does not really have a long history like the Enterprise has, that should count a bit.

[Herbert]

Christopher wrote:

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Regardless of how you define it, I don't think the Aventine would be the "flagship." It's more of an experimental ship, a test bed for new technologies. The "flagship" of the fleet might get the best, most advanced new toys, but not until after the Aventine has taken them for a test drive and made sure they won't blow up.

That answers my question. So we shouldn't expect the Enterprise, Titan, or Voyager to be ordered to a shipyard anytime soon in the novel series to be refit with quantum slipstream drive?

[Christopher]

Herbert wrote:

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That answers my question. So we shouldn't expect the Enterprise, Titan, or Voyager to be ordered to a shipyard anytime soon in the novel series to be refit with quantum slipstream drive?

Well, Titan is going back out to the frontier, so it won't be near any shipyards. As for the others, I couldn't say.