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   c.arts.startrek.tech   
   From: cxa25+usenet@cwru.edu   
      
   john1n2w3e@hotmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Remember to click on the picture to expand it to full size!   
      
   ImageShack did something weird to it, but I saved it and looked at it.   
   Fun fact: Reduce image size ~14% by converting it to PNG.   
      
   > Type :  Heavy Dreadnought   
      
   Super Dreadnought is the historical follow-on to Dreadnought. Heavy   
   Dreadnought sounds like a neologism intended to lie between D and Super   
   D. Not sure where you want Fearless to be.   
      
   > MISSION :   
   > Ability to engage and destroy large-mass (battleship hull class and   
   > greater) Threat vessels.   
      
   Is classifying threats by size really wise? Ignoring the canonized   
   fanfic that is the Scimitar, we've seen many examples of small ships   
   packing a powerful punch. Jem'Hadar vs. Odyssey, Defiant vs. Anything,   
   etc. What matters is not the size of the hull, but weaponry and   
   survivability.   
      
   > capability against multiple large-mass Threat vessels utilizing primary   
   > AND secondary shielding.   
      
   Why is secondary shielding such a big deal? Shielding is shielding, right?   
      
   >  Ability to incorporate the Heavy Assault   
   > Phaser Lance weapons system which produces a 2,100,000 terrawatt phaser   
      
   You spelled terawatt wrong. Anyhow, just say 2.1 exawatt or EW.   
      
   > DIMENSIONS :   
   > Length (Overall): 2975 meters;    Beam: 1136 meters;    Height: 374   
   > meters;    Decks: 82;    Mass: 38,950,634 metric tons   
      
   That's a lot of volume for a vessel that ostensibly has only one mission   
   profile. Expect that, if it's ever constructed, the politicians will   
   tack on several dozen more missions and they'll end up glorified   
   Galaxy-class cruise ships.   
      
   > CREW :   
   > 9,800 (250 Officers; 3250 Enlisted Crew; 5,600 Military Troops and / or   
   > Special Forces; 100 Fighter Pilots; 600* ExoComps -Sentient artificial   
   > life forms)   
      
   Why do you have only one pilot for every five Peregrines? Do you expect   
   to lose Peregrines as rapidly as Voyager lost shuttles? Why are the   
   fighter pilots listed separately from the ship's officers; are they part   
   of a different service branch? The Air Wing on CVN-65 is almost as large   
   as the ship's crew, and it only has 85 aircraft.   
      
   What is the status of the exocomps? They're not commissioned or   
   enlisted, so they must be civilian contractors. Why are they listed   
   separately from other civilian contractors? Isn't that sort of racist?   
   How can you make new ones in an emergency and just impress them into the   
   crew? That's forced reproduction *and* slavery, and violates all kinds   
   of Federation and Starfleet tenets. Captain Picard would insurrect   
   against you.   
      
   > PROPULSION :   
   > Sustainable cruise velocity: Warp Factor 8.2.  Emergency velocity: Warp   
   > Factor 9.2 for 18 hours;    Impulse drive velocity: 0.74 c  (Max.)   
      
   After centuries of "only ship in the quadrant" emergencies, I would hope   
   that Starfleet would make its warships fast enough to actually respond   
   to crises before they develop into fiascoes. It was not the firepower of   
   the Enterprise-D that saved Earth from the Borg; it was the speed with   
   which she returned to Earth. Likewise during the second Borg assault on   
   Earth, with the Enterprise-E. It was not the Defiant's firepower which   
   retook DS9, it was the speed with which she was able to break the   
   Dominion's lines and outrun them to Bajor.   
      
   In realworld situations, we continue to develop faster and lighter   
   weapons systems even as really big ones are cut back (Paladin vs.   
   Crusader, tactical nukes vs. Tsar Bomba).   
      
   > COMPUTER SYSTEMS :   
   > Type : 4 x Hyper Bio-Neural (Mod III) computer core. (1 forward primary   
   > hull; 1 aft primary hull; 2 engineering hull)  All computer subsystems   
   > throughout the ship incorporate Bio-Neural Gel Packs for maximum data   
   > processing capacity.   
      
   I still dislike bioneural gelpacks, but I guess they're canon. I wish   
   they'd come up with a better name, though. I don't call PCI cards   
   "electronic printed circuit boards."   
      
   > Offensive armament -   
   > 50 x Tri-cobalt device   
      
   Tri-cobalt devices have subspace effects, therefore are illegal to use   
   as weapons. They should not be listed as such. Rather, consider them   
   mine-clearing devices or something like that.   
      
   > Defensive armament   
   > 500 x Self-replicating cloaked mine   
      
   Wouldn't these be illegal under the Treaty of Algernon or somesuch? Do   
   you need to spend some time in the holodeck Commander Tucker? Anyhow,   
   just because they were deployed by a Bajoran space station doesn't mean   
   the Federation produces them now.   
      
   --   
   Chris   
   TROC   
      
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