First Command for New Captain in 2369/2370...

[Redshirt214]

Some people compared her to a Strider\Ranger class scout of the TOS era, and there's a distinct resemblance. Honestly, though, there are only so many way to skin a cat when it comes to starship design, so most ships that stick to the saucer & two nacelles look similar.

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/star-trek-lower-decks-u-s-s-cerritos.304677/page-2

The "tugs" in non-cannon Trek remind me more of the Integrated Tug-Barges on the Great Lakes: essentially they are complete ships and are more freighters in their own right than "tugs" in other senses. They just happen to be able to detach from their barges if needs be.

I'll defiantly include the Cerritos, though. It is pretty much designed as a 24th century version of the Miranda class, which I am quite fond of in the first place.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Boimler uses “seven years” of senior crew logs to make a simulation in the movie episode of the first season, so it implies that Freeman has been a captain that long, arguably of the Cerritos.

And the showrunner has stated that he’s intended the California class as a ship that’s “always been around”, but whether he means the ship class itself or the role it plays is not clear. My headcanon sees her as an overgrown contemporary to the Ambassasdor era ships, which include the Niagara class and whatever ships were used to build the TNG Jupiter station. Which in turn for me means up to sixty years old by the time of LDS, implying the class has been refit more than once, with newbuild batches every now and then, like the Excelsior and Miranda classes are fandom-implied to have been.

Mark

 

[DEWLine]

@Mark_Nguyen: that logic works for my brain too. Robidoux and Solvang were probably among the first batch of California-class ships ever built. How many other production blocks there's been, how many ships in each...still undetermined.