Sovereign class

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:51 am

Teaos wrote:I'm not saying certain ships are sizably more powerful than other. It's just no matter what kind of ship a civilian is on they are going to be in danger. Having them on a hogher powered ship does not seem to put them in any more danger than a science vessel. That is unless the ship is abused and does absolutly stupid things with out dealing with the civilians first.

Such as responding to the distress signal of a ship being attacked? You can't assume that events will give you the luxury of time to evacuate the civilians. More to the point, other than the Odyssey I don't think we've ever heard of civilians being evacuated before a GCS heads into trouble.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:26 pm

Exactly - the problem is that responding to an emergency situation does not allow you to go visist a starbase and drop off your civilians.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:10 pm

Mikey wrote:Exactly - the problem is that responding to an emergency situation does not allow you to go visist a starbase and drop off your civilians.

I think that's what the saucer seperation was for originally. But it took up too much time an the battle section, as one person put it, "looked like a chicken with it's head cut off". That's show biz for ya.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:12 pm

True, but that explaination dosen't work in-universe.
And keep in mind, the saucer section increases the power of the whole ship, so taking it off may not be a good idea if you're going into battle.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:14 pm

Plus it's got the main phaser arrays which, if the Tech Manual is accurate, are about as powerful individually as the rest of them are combined.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:26 pm

In-universe the Galaxy's seperation abilities were poorly thought out and never became a regularly used feature.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:30 pm

In-universe the entire Galaxy-class design was badly thought out.

Blackstar the Chakat · Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:33 pm

I think that's the only thing we all agree on.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:45 pm

Indeed.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:32 am

It could have been a decent explorer but that is all.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:58 am

It could be decent if it was used in an inteligent manner.
Instead, we get them trying to use it as both a civilian science ship, and a military cruiser. Morons.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:25 pm

Unfortunately, it's typical Starfleet thinking. Create a ship design that escels at certain tasks, and then use it for almost everything BUT those tasks.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:37 pm

I can't help but picture the Galaxy way out in deep space ages away from the Klingons and Romulans doing its scouting mission. I think it could do a damn fine job of that.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:03 pm

It would be great - but with the "everything-all the time" Starfleet philosophy, it would neve be allowed to JUST do that.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:36 pm

I agree that it would make a good science ship, particularly if they scraped the warship angle and got rid of most of the weapons.
Sadly, Starfleet is not that smart.