How many ships??

[RobertScorpio]

Looking at all of the TREK movies, how many different classes of Federation ships did we actually see from TMP to Nemesis. Because is seemed to me recently, having watched them all, it wasn't that many...

Rob
scorpio

 

[cardinal biggles]

How many did we actually see? Going by unique classes...

TMP: Constituion-refit
TWOK: Miranda
TSFS: Excelsior, Oberth
TVH: Nothing new
TFF: Nothing new
TUC: Nothing new
GEN: Nebula (though this was a carry-over from TNG), Excelsior variant (it's really a sub-class rather than a unique class, but I'll count it anyway)
FC: Sovereign, Defiant (a carry-over from DS9), Steamrunner, Akira, Norway, Saber
INS: Holoship
NEM: Nothing new

 

[JNG]

Just for sake of completeness, I think you can glimpse (and I do mean *glimpse*) a couple more in Spacedock in STIII. The cargo container with warp nacelles thing and possibly a Phase II prototype...I apologize for not being in a place where I can get at my screenshots.

 

[ialfan]

There was also the Federation Scout Ship and new Shuttle Type in Insurrection along with the Argo in Nemesis but they aren't really anything big. Oh and the new shuttle in TFF.

 

[shatastrophic]

The Enterprise is the only ship in the quadrant!

 

[RobertScorpio]

The Enterprise is the only ship in the quadrant!

LOL!

 

[cardinal biggles]

There was also the Federation Scout Ship and new Shuttle Type in Insurrection along with the Argo in Nemesis but they aren't really anything big. Oh and the new shuttle in TFF.

The scout ship might count, depending on how broad Rob is looking to get in this discussion. IIRC, the scout ship had its own registry number, similar to the Runabouts, whereas the Insurrection shuttle and the Argo were both auxiliary craft attached to Enterprise.

 

[percept]

Looking at all of the TREK movies, how many different classes of Federation ships did we actually see from TMP to Nemesis. Because is seemed to me recently, having watched them all, it wasn't that many...

Rob
scorpio

The best place where you will be getting a suitable reply to your query is here.It's an interview of Sternbach -an Illustrator who has served as an illustrator with star trek since it's first release in 1979.

 

[Timo]

IIRC, the scout ship had its own registry number, similar to the Runabouts, whereas the Insurrection shuttle and the Argo were both auxiliary craft attached to Enterprise.

Or at least the scoutship had a registry number. Not necessarily its own, as it could have been attached to the starship that carried this NCC-75227 registry. Remember that the Captain's Yacht to the E-E didn't carry any sort of a dash at the end of the registry number, either...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[cardinal biggles]

The best place where you will be getting a suitable reply to your query is here.It's an interview of Sternbach -an Illustrator who has served as an illustrator with star trek since it's first release in 1979.

That's certainly an interesting article, but hardly conclusive. For one thing, Rick Sternbach worked on The Motion Picture, and then wasn't employed on a Star Trek project again until The Next Generation. His work on TNG, DS9, and Voyager kept him from working on the films until Nemesis. So while Rick is a great font of behind-the-scenes information, he hasn't been there for everything.

Actually, a good source for this question would be The STArchive. It's a little old-school, but you can search by film and episode titles as well as ships.

 

[Rick Sternbach]

Rick Sternbach worked on The Motion Picture, and then wasn't employed on a Star Trek project again until The Next Generation. His work on TNG, DS9, and Voyager kept him from working on the films until Nemesis. So while Rick is a great font of behind-the-scenes information, he hasn't been there for everything.

Actually, the work I did on TNG/DS9/Voy didn't prevent me from working on some of the films that were done while the shows were on hiatus. I put in a lot of sketch work on Trek V (the pool table and stand-up video screen are mine, among other bits), painted the static (non-animated) galactic map plates for Stellar Cartography in Generations, blueprinted the Ent-E for ILM. Little stuff like that.

Rick
www.spacemodelsystems.com

 

[cardinal biggles]

I stand corrected.

That water-filled pool table was a really neat touch, by the way.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I thought those visuals were cool as well.