There is a conference room at CBS that is staffed 24 hours a day by executive nerds who find ways to make ship names, classes, and window/deck sizes as contradictory as possible. They have a single liaison to STO.
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The bridge of the Voyager-J is actually located in the Delta Quadrant. It got left behind.
That's the trouble with these newfangled ships. More missing pieces than a charity shop jigsaw puzzle.
That's the trouble with these newfangled ships. More missing pieces than a charity shop jigsaw puzzle.
I figure at some point Starfleet would have run out of cool sounding class names and had to start recycling them.
There are literally an infinite number of names Starfleet could come up with for ship classes. The reason why they are reusing names is because the current Trek producers are enamored with small-universe syndrome.
Hmm..
The Boothby Class. Botannical research vessels.
The Boothby Class. Botannical research vessels.
It seems to me that so are fans or at least a big enough segment that production teams feel this is the content that will get views.
I'm painfully aware of that. That's why DSC was set 10 years before TOS rather than some other, more logical time period where they would have more faith in their own show that they wouldn't feel the need to have TOS be their crutch they needed to lean on.
Star Trek isn't logical.
STO mechanics differentiate between different ship types specifically. The TOS Connie is the Constitution Light Cruiser, or the Temporal Light Cruiser. The DSC Connie is the Temporal Cruiser Carrier (or somesuch). The KEL Connie is the Kelvin Timeline Command Cruiser. Thus, they can all be called Constitution class while avoiding mixups.
Additionally, in the Ship Editor where you can mix and match parts, let's that the Constitution Temporal Miracle Worker Light Cruiser as an example: it lists Constitution, Constitution Beta, Constitution Pilot, Constitution Refit, Jefferies, Excalibur, Vesper, Exeter. These are "classes", and more of a cosmetic thing.
The Command Science Vessel could've been called either Intrepid or Janeway-class - it doesn't make much of a mechanical difference.
Bottom line, it's a stylistic choice by licenced content creators, let's just roll with it.
And the Sovereign is the Szechuan sauce of Starfleet. It came and went.
The Galaxy-class is the NuCoke of the fleet. They tried to improve on the formula but it just went flat. Literally.
Nah, the Galaxy was largely something that could only be improved upon.
Why the blazes are there no ships named:
Christopher Pike
Rachel Garrett
James T. Kirk???
Christopher Pike
Rachel Garrett
James T. Kirk???
it was a joke. relax your balls.
There's a USS James T. Kirk in the books and I thought that was a great name for a ship.
Now that we have better images/renderings of the various classes, I can't figure out how this piece of debris from "That Hope Is You, Part I" fits on a Constitution-class ship. If one looks closely, the "bridge", the struts and the notched saucer don't match anything I know. Any thoughts?
Could it be from the underside of the saucer?
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