[Bridger]

It's the MSD of the Enterprise-B used in Generations.

[Tain]

Side note: where does that MSD come from?

It was on the Bridge of the Enterprise B, in Star Trek Generations.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Excelsior_class

[Deleted]

Oh, Excelsior Class specifications. Let the confusion begin!

[Bridger]

Considering that only one of them is an Excelsior Class ship it is not that confusing btw who writes this those are all different ship classes.

[aceman67]

They are all kitbashes of the Excelsior, and the various parts used should be similar to the base class. But they aren't, because reasons.

[Bridger]

It's like these ships are all of the same class.



I wish the people who writes this BS would know what they are writing, they made the Miranda and Soyuz Class different ship classes but those things are Exclesior Class variants.

[Scarlett]

Miranda is from the Excelsior?

[Bridger]

What I meant is that the Soyuz Class is like a Step-Sister to the Miranda Class they are identical on most parts but still different and are seen as different classes of ships.

But in this book all those ships that are using Excelsior parts are seen as variants to the Excelsior Class but they are different ship classes and look nothing like an Excelsior Class.

[Deleted]

What I meant is that the Soyuz Class is like a Step-Sister to the Miranda Class they are identical on most parts but still different and are seen as different classes of ships.

But in this book all those ships that are using Excelsior parts are seen as variants to the Excelsior Class but they are different ship classes and look nothing like an Excelsior Class.

The pictures are from the DS9 tech manual, and they explain why:

For example.. Galaxy and Nebula, same parts, different configuration, different class.
Another example Constitution and Miranda, same parts, different configuration, different class.

These "Excelsior Class variants" including the one we know as the "Centaur Type" were made in the Dominion War. These are not ship classes and they are not standard ships, they are simply thrown togheter by leftover parts by Starfleet in order to get more ships into the field, so they are not a class. They are put togheter from spare Excelsior parts / frame work.

So they are an Excelsior Variant, but not a Class in themselves. Because they are not standard, they're thrown togheter during the Dominion War.

[Bridger]

Since most of these ships use parts from other Classes like the Miranda that are mysteriously larger that argument is .......

[Scarlett]

... only adding to the confusion

Kit bashing for the screen almost never translates well in text.