Dominion Battleship or Dominion Dreadnought?

[Sisko4Life]

In WYLB, when the allied fleet prepares for its final invasion to Cardassia Prime, we see several ships that look identical to the Dominion Battleship orbiting the planet. However, these ships are massively bloated in scaling, and look several times bigger in comparison to the Dominion Battlecruisers, which are supposedly the size of Galaxy Class starships. Some size comparison charts list this as a separate class of ship:

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/comparison.gif

And some sites say its not defined... or just have speculation:

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/sanfranciscoacademy/Dominion/Ships/dom_ships.htm

http://www.ditl.org/index.php?daymain=/hedship.php?domdreadnought

Anyone have some canon facts about this?

 

[Wingsley]

Memory Alpha seems to concur with your observations. The side-by-side comparison over Cardassia Prime seems to suggest that these are among the largest conventional starships ever seen in TREK.

As far the label of battleship vs. dreadnought, a dreadnought is a battleship.

 

[nx1701g]

I always believed that they were meant to be the same ships as seen in the episode Valiant. However, some sites (DITL) ran comparisons and suggest that these ships are larger than those and have nicknamed them Planetary Defenders.

I think it was just a scaling issue and that they're meant to be the same ship as the one seen in Valiant.

 

[Timo]

To be sure, the scaling of the "WYLB" behemoths is established against just two types of vessel: one of the medium Dominion warship types (of which we know there are many subtle variants), and the Breen standard type, both of which make an "overflight" of one of the behemoths.

We could just as well argue that the particular medium warship we saw (and see in the shot that Wingsley linked into) is smaller than the usual fare, rather than vice versa.

And we have some reason to argue that the Breen warships come in several sizes, too, despite all looking the same. Since VOY "Scorpion" suggests the Breen use biotech for their ships extensively enough for them to be called "organic-based", we might speculate that the ship we see here is a youngling...

Timo Saloniemi