Spoilers The Ships of Lower Decks
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Haven't seen it yet. Did they call it an Antares-class (if anything)?
It was just an alien space freighter, just like two of the three times that version appeared in TNG (the Ornaran freighter and Okona's ship.)
I wonder what the 149 other Federation member worlds think of Starfleet continually naming their ships after Earth cities.
I guess the NA registries are just for automated ships, not that Starfleet has started a new registry system resetting the numbers back to 01.
I guess the NA registries are just for automated ships, not that Starfleet has started a new registry system resetting the numbers back to 01.
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The Texas Class looks very much like something borrowed from STO.The two darker things on top of the saucer that look like extensions of the pylons from some angles are torpedo launchers
The freshly declassified fully automated Texas class NA-01 Aledo
Two observations:
If Aledo is NA-01, what would be the registry of the presumed class-ship, the USS Texas? Or are pilot ships no longer named for the class now?
Also, that NA-01 registry reminds me of the mission patch in "First Flight" that was (mistakingly) labeled NA-01 instead of NX-01. It's canon now lol.
Good point about the registry. Unless the Texas’s registry is NA-00. Or maybe there is no USS Texas.
I thought it looked a bit like that little ship that comes out of the back end of certain Odyssey class ships.
I thought that was obvious since Season 2, they looked identical to other torpedo launchers we've seen on Federation ships.
Eh STO doesn't have any ships like that.
Could also be NX-Eighty-thousand-something, (or NAX-) and they only started the new format once they decided to start producing a line of automated starships.
NAX-01
Going back to the episode, Buenamigo does say the Aledo is the 'first of three' automated starships... So maybe there is no USS Texas indeed.
Y'know, in looking at this from a different angle, perhaps some ship class names derive their nomenclature from "project" names, as opposed to the first ship of the line. What if this was a special experimental automation test build named "Project Texas". The ships of this type are considered "Texas-class" starships, but there is no USS Texas. A stretch, I know, and very much out of the usual norms of ship design, but why not? What if the USS Reliant and others like her was a part of a "Project Miranda"; the Grissom from "Project Oberth", etc.? Some class ships we have seen on screen (particularly the big fleet scene at the beginning and end of PIC S3 - I think there were at least 5 class-named ships there) but most we haven't. I mean, hell, we've never actually seen the "USS Constitution"! We've only ever assumed that it existed with an NCC-1700 registry because of FJ's work! The ship has never even been mentioned on-screen as being a member of the fleet and a sister ship to the Enterprise! I think this could be a nice potential safety valve for explaining some inconsistencies about starship registries and lineage.
Or maybe I'm just talking outta my ass... Can't tell the difference much any more.
Or maybe I'm just talking outta my ass... Can't tell the difference much any more.
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