[Grey Wolf]

You know, if it wasn't for all the physically impossible things (for Star Trek physics) that are included in the futuristic Galaxy-class from All Good Things, it would be pretty cool. That third nacelle though. That's just wrong.

[Unknown Target]

THE ORIGINAL SERIES R0x0rs j00 B0x0rs!!!!!111oneoneone

[Tiara]

Originally posted by StratComm


But you can't tell me that the sensor pod is actually part of the nebula design.  How on earth does it connect?  A back-end on that configuration would be interesting to see.  (My comments about the kitbash syndrome).  Most of the time the Nebula is used interchangably for combat and science without changing it's visual appearance at all.

I think in the St-verse, it's very possible. Hell, the warp nacelles on most ships are tied in with bent tooth pick to the main hull (like the Galaxy).

IMO, the external nacelles are an old fashioned design. In the past they needed to be outside the ship to create a stable warp field. But instead of working it away (what should be done in a military fleet. See Defiant design) they decided on keeping them external because it gives a slight edge in speed (The Defiant is limited to Warp 9.2 IIRC and the Galaxy can go Warp 9.6+).

Also, power conduits seem to be very small in such ships. Like in the Intrepid class, one of the main powerconduits was an about 4 inches thick tube. It had 5,000 Terawatts flowing through it.

[Ford Prefect]

I still think if we pit the Federation against the Commonwealth in a war, Starfleet will get its ass handed to it so fast that it would be as if it never existed.

[StratComm]

Tiara, I know it intersects somewhere, but the design looses its flow completely.  The "Weapons Pod" connects to the hull via a tower that comes down around the back of the saucer, and is integrated into the connection there.  The bottom half of that tower is still there, but the top is missing in the sensor pod shot.  Did it just get chopped off?  I would guess that the rest of the tower is part of the weapons pod, but then what does the surface of the tower and the back of the saucer look like?  Plus, where the sensor pod's struts come in to the nacelle struts would have to bisect the impulse engines, which is a bad thing in ST-tech.  It just screams that it doesn't fit.

[Ghostavo]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Bah, I know what ship would rape any other ship in any universe, period: The Glorious Heritage class heavy cruiser of the High Guard Argosy. Long live her majesty the Empress!


http://fantasyscifi.topcities.com/andromeda/pics/ships.html

Combat Systems:
40 ELS missile tubes
12 PDL 50Mw turrets
12 AP cannons
36 RF-42 Centaur tactical fighters
76 RA-26 Shrike strike fighters
12 AF/A-29 Phoenix atmospheric attack craft
16 ES-115 Oracle heavy sensor/attack drones
8 ES-14 Janus light sensor/attack drones
6 Radiating Counter Measure generators
1 AI command and control entity


Standard Armament:
OM-5 standard offensive kinetic kill missiles
DM-5 standard defensive kinetic kill missiles
PM-6 Star Arrow smart anti-ship missiles
PM-6L Strategic Star Arrow smart anti-ship missiles (extended range variant)
PM-6LII Strategic Star Arrow multiple independent kill vehicle (MIKV) variant
SAPM-6III Strike Arrow surface attack variant
Nova Bombs

Bow before the might of the Commonwealth.

*cough* Wrath of Aquiles *cough*

[Ford Prefect]

The Wrath of Achilles is a class II deep stand-off attack ship. Deep stand-off attack ships are just the workhorse of the Argosy and their armament, while certainly advanced, is significantly less than that of a heavy cruiser like the Andromeda.

[Ghostavo]

They still manage to beat the crap out of a heavy cruiser

They are the perfect killers

[Flipside]

I loved the design of the Andromeda to be honest, even if it was 'Hercules in Space', theres something about the design that reminds me of the Liberator in Blakes 7

And Ghostavo, that's about tactics, same way a Steamrunner will completely mash most things at range in SFA, but will get completely trashed at close range

[Ford Prefect]

Well we're not pitting High Guard warships against each other, here! We're unleashing all 150,000 of them on the Federation!

[Ghostavo]

Ok ok...

Let loose the Magog Mothership!!!

Flipside, in the episode where the Wrath of Achilles (I think it was it) faced the Andromeda, it was completly obliderating it... until a timely intervention of a transport filled with a lot of warheads

[Tiara]

BAH!

Future Feds own j00!



Seriously, the 31st century Feds pretty much own everything since they basically can control time.

[Ghostavo]

32nd century Feds own 31st century Feds unless the latter commite suicide

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Ghostavo
32nd century Feds own 31st century Feds unless the latter commite suicide

But the 32nd century feds haven't been in the series and the 31st century Feds have! So HA!

[Ulala]

Back on topic for a moment: The first seasons of every series (well, I never saw TOS's first series, so not sure about that) were a little shakey. DS9 was hard to get into at first, but picked up, Voyager's acting started out tight like TNG did, but those picked up too. I'm sure around season 5ish of Enterprise (if it survives the Friday night axe), we'll look back at the earlier seasons and say "man I can't believe I could stand to watch this crap" but because the later seasons finally got into a nice swing of things, we'll forgive it. In my opinion, Activision needs to support Viacom, not attack them. My $.02 that you guys probably didn't care to hear.

The Galaxy is a whacked design, but for nostalgic purpose I still like it. Soverign pwns j00 though. Prometheus was kinda cool too.

[Ford Prefect]

I'm thinking we need to arrange a multi-universal coalition war and see who comes out on top. We'll have the Imperial and New Republic fleets, all the major Star Trek forces, (Starfleet, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Borg, and the Dominion), the GTVA and the Shivans, and the Commonwealth High Guard.

[Flipside]

How about the Asgard and Go'Auld (sp?) to top it off

[Ghostavo]

Meh... it all is blown away by a coalition of high superior beings...

The ascended Ancients, Q, etc...

Why bother

[Ford Prefect]

The Ancients weren't higher beings, they just had a bigass empire. But I'll bet it still didn't span six galaxies.

[Ace]

In the end it spanded at least several more than six Let's see they built gates in the Asgard's galaxy, the one in Atlantis, the Milky Way, all over the place...