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SomosFuga wrote:Perhaps the Olmpic has landing capability so you can use transporters, shutles or you can land the ship, or a convination. Could be useful for hospital or troop ship.

Well, the hull is kind of oddly designed if it's supposed to land but Voyager could land and there's a tonne of problems with that. So why not?

Voyager at least had a more landable design than the Olympic, especially if you take the TNG TM's idea of the warp coils being exceptionally massive.

Of course, there's always the possibility (which I believe has been raised before) that the primary hull is detachable a la the Trade Fed core ships.

Captain Seafort wrote:Voyager at least had a more landable design than the Olympic, especially if you take the TNG TM's idea of the warp coils being exceptionally massive.

Of course, there's always the possibility (which I believe has been raised before) that the primary hull is detachable a la the Trade Fed core ships.

NEVER mention those montrosities again in this forum... ...sir.

Your right, Voyager was an abortion.

landing the entire ship like that to deploy troops turns it into one massive, tempting target. As far as landing craft; the Olympic has that odd, large portal on the top of the secondary hull - by appearances, presumable a large shuttlebay entrance. If we add that to where the "typical" shuttlebays would be, we now have an extra one in a spot that would be well-defended from surface fire. QED, IMHO.

Mikey wrote:landing the entire ship like that to deploy troops turns it into one massive, tempting target. As far as landing craft; the Olympic has that odd, large portal on the top of the secondary hull - by appearances, presumable a large shuttlebay entrance. If we add that to where the "typical" shuttlebays would be, we now have an extra one in a spot that would be well-defended from surface fire. QED, IMHO.

Makes me want to suggest the DITL'ers retry their troop ship design =)

What exactly a hospital ship is supposed to do do? i mean we never saw one in action.
and how many of them have starfleet? at least proportionately.

SomosFuga wrote:What exactly a hospital ship is supposed to do do? i mean we never saw one in action.

They're not meant to be in action. Historically they were used as transports, to get the seriously injured back home to better medical care than was available in theatre.

Put simply, they're giant floating hospitals. We don't see them because they stay behind the front lines, don't engage in combat and are generaly not attacked by enemies..

Captain Seafort wrote:

SomosFuga wrote:What exactly a hospital ship is supposed to do do? i mean we never saw one in action.

They're not meant to be in action. Historically they were used as transports, to get the seriously injured back home to better medical care than was available in theatre.

With the lack of any sort of real impactful ground presence/occupation forces in 'Trek, I'd guess that those ships are themselves the extent of in-theater care.

I'd think a hospital ship would be ideal in case of a major epidemic or at the trail end of a battle. I could see dozens of Olympic class ships in orbit of Cardassia post invasion (with some escorts, of course!)

Check this ship, the Resolute class is a light cruiser with spherical primary hull similar to the Olympic Class.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/my_ships/resolute.htm

SomosFuga wrote:Check this ship, the Resolute class is a light cruiser with spherical primary hull similar to the Olympic Class.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/my_ships/resolute.htm

Pretty cool. Shame they don't have more detailed specs.

Looks like a re-textured Olympic, minus the dorsal hangar.

Love the Idea, but some nice specs would be good.