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The Tritium Class Battlecruiser is a pre TOS design by Rick Sternbach, for Stan and Fred Goldstein's book "Star Trek: Spaceflight Chronology"The Tritium Class has the distinction of being the Federation's poster child of how NOT to build a starship.
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Oh, yes, the notorious Tritium-class! I remember this vessel. If I remember right, her crews LOATHED her.
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Well, she had a tendency to fly out of control when at warp.
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I've passed many hours looking for a 3D view of the Tritium class.Now I have it in color!.Great artwork,thanks!
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It does. But it's an old design that made it into a pseudo-fan publication.
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Heh. Though to be fair...The Edsel were badly marketed. And they were built using a combination of Ford and Mercury parts, making maintenance rather hit and miss. The Ford Edsel was, otherwise, a solid car.
Where as the Tritium couldn't even go to warp, with out spinning out of control.
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Good point. We really need a good RL ship as the equivalent to this clunker.
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Well, the British and French have come up with a number of awful near-misses in the past.
For example, "Fisher's Folly," the so-called Large Light Cruisers Furious, Courageous and Glorious were attempts to stick gigantic extra leftover guns from the dreadnought battleship building program onto enlarged light cruiser hulls. The British First Sea Lord at the time, the controversial and flamboyant Admiral Jackie Fisher, absolutely believed that armor could be sacrificed in favor of speed, big guns and a high rate of fire and so he had these ships built to be very fast, heavy-hitting raiders. Unfortunately, warships at the time were also carefully balanced - you were only supposed to carry guns that your armor could resist, and cruiser armor was paper to battleship grade guns, making it almost impossible for the Royal Navy to really find a good use for these ships. All 3 were eventually converted to aircraft carriers, saving the RN a lot of face as their crews considered them to be all but useless mockeries.
Then you've got the old French predreadnought battleship Hoche, also known derisively by her crews as the Grand Hotel because her gigantic superstructure resembled a floating palace. She wound up being under-performing, under-powered (if I remember right), unmaneuverable and massively top-heavy and was a very, very unpopular design among the French, who favored speed even more than the English did (the French school of design believed dash, ambition, unpredictability and sheer aggression could overcome any lack of weaponry or armor - and they eventually paid dearly for that by the end of WW1).
So, there are examples out there.
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It can do Warp 8.5.
Unfortunately, it can only do Warp 8.5 backwards and in high heels.
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I doff my hat to thee, sirrah, on thy appreciation of my bon mot.
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