Why didn't Starfleet build its own NX Dauntless?

[DonIago]

Yes, but when the bridge is on the very top it becomes more of a vunerable target than if it had several decks on top and underneath it to protect it.

Er...my point was specifically that having decks around you once the shields fail doesn't really matter. We see this in TUC where a single torpedo blows right through the Enterprise hull from top to bottom.

Besides, if you really want to blow up the ship, you've got the nacelles and main deflector to work with in any case.

 

[Stroudarian]

Hello all,

This is perhaps a dumb question but I was thinking about the episode "Hope and Fear" and was suddenly thinking "Why didn't Captain Janeway send the schematics for the Quantum Slipstream drive to Starfleet so that they could build a ship equipped with it of their own and bring Voyager's crew home with it?"

Now I don't know how long Voyager's crew was on board the Dauntless, but if they were capable of recreating the Quantum Slipstream drive on Voyager (yeah, I know that one should go along with the unlimited shuttles and torpedoes) then they must have the schematics for the propulsion system.

They might not have been able to make a practical version of it but Starfleet scientists and engineers might have had.
Heck for all I know they got the full technical schematics of the Dauntless and could have transmitted that to Earth.
Seeing how quickly Starfleet's shipyards seem to be able to build starships why couldn't they build a Starfleet version of the Dauntless (with some improvements here and there) and then send it to rendezvous with Voyager after deciding a location in the Delta Quadrant for Voyager to wait.

Some will probably say because the technology is too advanced, but if Voyager's crew who are suppose to have just limited resources can build a drive why not Starfleet with the almost unlimited resources they have?

I have often asked myself the very same question. Why didn't Starfleet just construct their own?

 

[Sophie74656]

I have often asked myself the very same question. Why didn't Starfleet just construct their own?

We don't know that they didnt. There's very littlw canon after Voyager. For all we know starfleet is working on it. If you read the novels you will see that they have perfected the slip stream

 

[Prax]

I liked the idea of a slipstream drive. It's basically the Trek equivalent of a hyperdrive.

 

[Tenacity]

Er...my point was specifically that having decks around you once the shields fail doesn't really matter.

I would disagree. We saw/heard of ships that lost their deck one bridges, while other places within the ship retained pressure. Kirk once refer to sickbay as the most protect area of the ship, as opposed to being just a protect as the rest of the ship in general.

We see this in TUC where a single torpedo blows right through the Enterprise hull from top to bottom.

The torpedo went though the outer portion of the saucer, where the "under-cut" was. The torpedo blew through one and a half decks.

And it didn't detonate.

 

[thribs]

Star Trek Online implies that they did. I know that isn't canon but at least it shows someone else had the same idea.

 

[Sophie74656]

Star Trek Online implies that they did. I know that isn't canon but at least it shows someone else had the same idea.

The novels also

 

[Dukhat]

Pocket Books had a contest to design the USS Titan, and Sean Tourangeau won with his depiction of the Luna-class starship. It's also slipstream capable. It appears on several of the novel covers (see Memory Beta).

In my head the Titan was a Nebula-Class ship, he would've shown he can handle commanding a vessel with a large crew and a number of civilians on exploratory missions, so for me it just fits him nicely.

Never cared for it, personal preferance would be for Riker to get a smaller, tighter ship

It has one of the things i dislike in general on some Starfleet vessels, the torpedo launcher fires the torpedoes directly over the top of the main bridge, clearing it by only a few meters. Why?

I always had the impression that the intent of the name "Titan" was to imply that Riker's new ship would be extremely large (i.e. Titans as Greek Gods), not that it was meant to be named after a moon of Saturn.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I kind of imagine the Titan having a backwards captains chair that Riker can straddle the way he always loved.

 

[Dukhat]

I kind of imagine the Titan having a backwards captains chair that Riker can straddle the way he always loved.

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Why the hell does he do that???

 

[USS Firefly]

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Why the hell does he do that???

Because thats the real Riker maneuver

 

[Sophie74656]

Why the hell does he do that???

I was at a convention last summer and someone asked him. He said he hadn't realized he was doing it and was surprised when it was pointed out to him. He said something like when he saw the chair for the first time he thought it was so low that he could get his leg over.

 

[trekshark]

It does seem like a faster way to get seated than walking in front of the chair and then sitting