It's small in comparison to a Galaxy- or Sovereign-class, (and perhaps even an Excelsior-class), but I'd place it somewhere along the medium-sized ships in the fleet myself.
What excactly is the Intrepid Class???
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It's a misconception that they're long-range scouts. Perhaps such a ship would have been better suited to the situation Voyager found itself in, but the ship itself was no more expected to find itself centuries away from home than the tiny Nova Class Equinox.
Then again, would a more specialized ship like a long-range scout have fared nearly as well? Then again again, I don't think anyone expected any Federation ship to survive combat with a Borg tactical cube.
Then again, would a more specialized ship like a long-range scout have fared nearly as well? Then again again, I don't think anyone expected any Federation ship to survive combat with a Borg tactical cube.
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The first thing that pops into my head when I think "Voyager" is "Light Cruiser," and I see others have said that, so I'll just stick with it.
It's a misconception that they're long-range scouts. Perhaps such a ship would have been better suited to the situation Voyager found itself in, but the ship itself was no more expected to find itself centuries away from home than the tiny Nova Class Equinox.
Then again, would a more specialized ship like a long-range scout have fared nearly as well? Then again again, I don't think anyone expected any Federation ship to survive combat with a Borg tactical cube.
To be fair ... Voyager's systems were severely augmented via the Unimatrix 0 Sphere ship, and besides, both were in that combat in order to retrieve the away team to begin with, not to destroy the cube in question (which would likely have been a task beyond their ability).
The only reason the cube exploded was because the Queen initiated self-destruct.
Voyager was able to survive most of it's encounters with the Borg due to extraordinary circumstances, apart from when their creativity was brought into play in order to secure their escape, and besides, the Collective considered Voyager as an 'insect' of sorts.
Can be stingy, but not really worth of killing unless it proved to be a huge threat (which it did in Endgame because of having access to more advanced technology and tactics that allowed them to score high damage in one blow).
As for the Intrepid class itself ... it's quite plausible a ship of it's size could house defensive/offensive abilities like the ones on the Galaxy class.
It was released into service almost a decade after the Galaxy class to begin with, and prompted by their encounter with the Borg, they wanted to give smaller ships more in terms of delivering damage to the Collective (Defiant being a prime example, and other larger classes of ships such as the Intrepid would hardly be left out of the picture since the ship was constructed/released into service in a similar time-frame).
It's a misconception that they're long-range scouts. Perhaps such a ship would have been better suited to the situation Voyager found itself in, but the ship itself was no more expected to find itself centuries away from home than the tiny Nova Class Equinox.
Then again, would a more specialized ship like a long-range scout have fared nearly as well? Then again again, I don't think anyone expected any Federation ship to survive combat with a Borg tactical cube.
I agree. If she was a long range scout, she would carry a larger fuel supply, larger torpedo, shuttle, and crew complement, more spare parts, etc...
^^I'm trying to withold a joke about Voyager's shuttle complement.
And the possibility that the crew was repairing/rebuilding the lost shuttles is far fetched?
Not likely.
In between episodes, the crew could have made numerous pit stops on planets that contain any form of usable matter.
To that end, the crew could have simply converted said matter into energy and back again into components needed to create shuttles and various other pieces of equipment.
Torpedoes they could have synthesized at any race's shipyards on the level of Kazon if not Talaxian technology to begin with since they use anti-matter as well.
I recall that too, either at the penal colony or when Paris is first shown the ship in a flyby. Might be wrong but definitely recall that term "long range tactical cruiser". Add to that the bio neural gel packs which are clearly a combat minded measure and the presence of tricobalt devices and we start to see something far more combat oriented than similar starfleet vessels of her size.
Certainly her performance in the show would fit with this, not an outright battleship but at the very least one well suited to repeated combat against a variety of opponents with little support. That,m combined with her stated very high top end speed suggest a rapid response vessel, one intended to move quickly to hotspots significantly removed from her home port and survive protracted engagements until reinforcements arrived. The added redundancy shown by having the (then) experimental EMH in place would ted to support this, as does the nature of their original mission in the badlands.
They probably traded with friendly alien races they encountered along the way. Torpedoes can be replenished, and shuttles can be rebuilt. No big deal whatsoever. They built the Delta Flyer from SCRATCH, after all. They can surely rebuild existing shuttles with comparatively little effort.
As for the holodeck: Not surprising they left it online, either. Never mind the excuse about holodeck power systems not working in the rest of the ship; the simple fact is, under Voyager's circumstances, keeping the holodeck online is vital to the mental health and well-being of the crew. Being stranded so far from home? They HAVE to have that holodeck, or they'll all go crazy from loneliness.
What about the crew themselves??? You mean the crew is so characterless they need a hologram program to feel relevant? It's bad writing, and a complete betrayal of the original concept. All the writers needed to do was read Aubrey and Hornblower books or if that is not good enough watch episodes of Star Trek, like Charlie X, where it was shown the kinds of recreation done on a starship.
But that was not the point, the production wanted to be more like TNG, so the Voyager characters were compelled to have the holodeck as a necessity.
Hey guys, feel free to start a new thread on this subject, but this one was dormant for seven years, so it's being put back to sleep....
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