I always leaned toward the Danube-class myself, but something faster would be preferable.Duskofdead wrote:If I could actually HAVE a ship, what I'd want is a Raven-class ship, or something very similar. Having a Sovereign or whatever, you need x hundred trained officers to help you run it. I'd like one of those ships where you could veer off into the middle of nowhere and the thing virtually runs itself, for years at a time.Teaos wrote:The 4 most powerful I see.
When everything is up and optimal, yes, but notice a crapload of things went offline when the EMH's were trying to run it themselves, and there was no easy way for them to run around and just turn everything back on. In fact the MVAM was an act of desperation because they couldn't keep anything online, weapons engines etc.Teaos wrote:Technically the Promethius could be run by 4 people.
They could take over a small empire!Teaos wrote:2 hologrames with no combat training kicked arse in it. Imagin what 3 or 4 trained people could do.
Ships need maintenace, so unless SF has skutters, their kind of screwed. Hell the Nostromo was fully automated but still required a crew for certain functions and a quarter of them where maintainers.Teaos wrote:I suppose it would be a matter of running the ship and running the ship well.
With the computing powers in modern Star Fleet ships they could easily keep running with only a few people. The ship runs its self and the crew tell it what to do. But if something goes wrong then you need people who know what they are doing.
Well that was more of an improvised system and Scotty didn't plan on taking her into battle, which he actually said in the film.Cpl Kendall wrote:Yep. Enterprise was almost fully automated in STIII and it didn't turn out well either.Teaos wrote:And ever since that Constitution class ship went nuts while controlled by that computer Star Fleet would probably be a little worried about making a ship to automated.
I know. It suggests that TOS-Movie ships aren't designed to be automated to such an extent, either by design or lack of capability. Really M-5 was an interesting experiment but the episode never expalined how they intended to get around the maintenance issues.ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Well that was more of an improvised system and Scotty didn't plan on taking her into battle, which he actually said in the film.
I suppose that was a proof-of-concept type experiment. The next step would be to build some type of remote controlled drones that could repair and maintain the ship.Cpl Kendall wrote:I know. It suggests that TOS-Movie ships aren't designed to be automated to such an extent, either by design or lack of capability. Really M-5 was an interesting experiment but the episode never expalined how they intended to get around the maintenance issues.ChakatBlackstar wrote:
Well that was more of an improvised system and Scotty didn't plan on taking her into battle, which he actually said in the film.
Possibly, though you'd think they would already have them. Than Scotty wouldn't have to crawl around in the wall tube. Yet we never saw any service robots until the Exocomps.ChakatBlackstar wrote:
I suppose that was a proof-of-concept type experiment. The next step would be to build some type of remote controlled drones that could repair and maintain the ship.
