I'm sorry? Everything I've ever seen said the Galaxy was built first, then Enterprise, then Yamato. And we've seen the Galaxy on-screen a couple of times. I've never seen any suggestion that there wasn't a U.S.S. Galaxy.
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I'm sorry? Everything I've ever seen said the Galaxy was built first, then Enterprise, then Yamato. And we've seen the Galaxy on-screen a couple of times. I've never seen any suggestion that there wasn't a U.S.S. Galaxy.
Dave described it as a pretty kick-ass sort of starship, actually. (Though it now occurs to me that "kick-ass" says absolutely nothing about the ship's size.)
Also, Ezri is a Captain by rank. Dave described on the "Future of TNG" panel the circumstances under which Ezri gets promoted, but that would be, to quote River Song, "Spoilers."
Her crew includes some characters from the post-finale DS9 fiction, Presumably chosen because she had a working relationship with them prior.
Dave described on the "Future of TNG" panel the circumstances under which Ezri gets promoted, but that would be, to quote River Song, "Spoilers."
Hmm... which suggests that her promotion is part of something larger... and that we may find out in Greater Than The Sum, if not in Destiny, perhaps.
Come on Bowers as exec... or at least as Security Chief
That was a conjecture in the Encyclopedia, but it was just that -- conjecture. All the onscreen evidence says that the Enterprise was first, and I don't recall ever seeing a U.S.S. Galaxy.
All indications have been that Bacco and her usual gang of suspects will be included in ASD, just not as the main characters.
The Galaxy was seen in Tears of the Prophets during the Battle of Chin'toka.
it was also described in the TNG TM.
it was also described in the TNG TM.
It will include both -- the novel isn't going to focus on Bacco's government, but it will play a role. It won't focus on the Aventine, either, but it will also play a role.
There's a lot going on, don't worry.
Nobody said it covers the entire war...
Well, that would be astronomy, not astrology. And there is no moon named Aventine, but there is an asteroid called 26356 Aventini. And 4 Vesta is one of the largest asteroids. But of course that's a coincidence; since the ships are named for the seven hills of Rome, no doubt the Vesta in question is the Roman goddess of the hearth. I'm not clear on what she had to do with the hills, though, or why her name is applicable to this starship class.
Indeed. As Marco said in the MyrU panel, the idea is for each short novel to depict a different one of the myriad possible alternate timelines. So it's unlikely that any MyrU installment will get a sequel. (But you never know...)
Dave described on the "Future of TNG" panel the circumstances under which Ezri gets promoted, but that would be, to quote River Song, "Spoilers."
Hmm... which suggests that her promotion is part of something larger... and that we may find out in Greater Than The Sum, if not in Destiny, perhaps.
No Ezri in GTTS.
It will include both -- the novel isn't going to focus on Bacco's government, but it will play a role. It won't focus on the Aventine, either, but it will also play a role.
There's a lot going on, don't worry.
Fair enough...
Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus, was a priestess of Vesta, and her temple was located near the Palatine Hill, where the twins lived and where the city was first founded. A bit loose, but I assume that's the intended connection.
Just to be clear, that wasn't my post you quoted.
I thought it went U.S.S Galaxy, *then* the U.S.S Yamato, and *then* the U.S.S Enterprise-D.
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/USS_Galaxy
So it would seem that there was a Galaxy-class USS Galaxy that was in service as late as 2379, and it would make sense that it was the prototype to the Galaxy-class, but I'm guessing that MA is offering (understandable) conjecture that it was the prototype.
It's also probably a carry-over from recent and modern naval practices of often naming all the ships of a specific class along the same thematic line.
For instance, the US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters are all named after former US Secretaries of the Treasury department:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_class_cutter
