The reason Connies were "retired" could be because you cannot improve on a LEGEND. (Just thought i'd throw a monkey wrench into the whole conversation... HAHAHA)
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The reason Connies were "retired" could be because you cannot improve on a LEGEND. (Just thought i'd throw a monkey wrench into the whole conversation... HAHAHA)
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Actually, I would say that they were retired because the new ships kept improving on the original design.
Constitution
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Galaxy
Sovereign
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PROFIT!
Then there's the opposition:
Malachowski / Hoover
Miranda / Soyuz
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I always preferred the Nebula to the Galaxy.
In fact, I may take my next Free T6 and get a Nebula.
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The Nebula you could say is a TNG version of the Miranda. In a manner of speaking. Has the mission pod / torpedo pod up top, the necells on the bottom; except the nebula technically has a secondary hull with a deflector dish.
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Yeah. That's the lineage.
The Connie evolved into the Sovereign and the Hoover evolved into the Nebula. They're both design advancements on a base platform.
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I'd say the Akira more closely follows the general spec of the Miranda's shape - saucer, underslung nacelles, upper pod for the torps with the Akira having the bulge under the saucer rather than an actual secondary hull containing the main deflector.
The Nebula is more of an cousin design to the Galaxy in my eyes. Though it's not Starfleet focused, I'm hoping Picard will show us a few of the ships they've got at that point in time and what direction they've gone in after the Sovereign, Intrepid, Prometheus etc.
Incidentally on the STO front, the T6 Nebula isn't a bad ship at all, the Sutherland class. It follows the look of the Andromeda and Yamato class, themselves presented as successor designs to the Galaxy and Galaxy-X.
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I think we only saw the Akira on screen once right, 'First Contact' the Borg battle at Sector 001 ?
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• TNG films: (1)
• DS9: (9)
• VOY: (4)
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The Akira was indeed the most prominent ship of the First Contact ships, considering it became one of the most popular designs that later lead to the design of the NX-01.
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Wow, I must have missed a few episodes, lol...
It did look sleek when it made its first appearance on film.
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NEVER board a starship named Thunder Child.
Because, you know, they've been blowing up since the 1880s. H.G. Wells, in The War of the Worlds, Book 1: Chapter 17, had the HMS Thunder Child protect a flotilla of civilian steamers from the invading Martians. It was destroyed almost immediately.
The U.S.S. Thunderchild was 'absorbed' (assimilated) by a sentient Borg Supercube, and was later destroyed by the Planet Killer.
Stick to the Constitution layout: Saucer, neck, hull, and two vertical pylons with nacelles. They just crash.
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That and if your fleet only had large ships, they could be taken out with smaller, faster moving ships, so you need smaller sips to help protect the larger ones as well. Although Earth physics work slightly different in space, due to a lack of friction, and other forces, so the main benifit to the Miranda is the speed it can be built in, repaired, and refitted.
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Here's a few shots: This one is from Message in a Bottle, which featured the first appearance of the Prometheus class and I think the 2 Defiant class ships was the first time a ship of the class other than the Defiant was seen, as the episode predates "Valiant" but they weren't named in the episode.
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And another from DS9 that came a cropper to the Cardassian orbital platforms.
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The final Episode of DS9 Season 5 introduced the First Contact ships and this was the first time we saw more than the original Defiant Class Prototype.
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