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A mod and retexture by me of the wonderful STL format version of Baton Rouge by Captain Mojo, with textures and additional or replacement parts by Dave Metlesits of The First Fleet fame. Inspired by the appropriate schematics of the late Neale "Pixel Sagas" Davison, and based on the original Baton Rouge design by conceptual artist Rick Sternbach as first published in the Franchised licensed Star Trek Space Flight Chronology (STSFC). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

As the name says. This visual depicts a generic Baton Rouge class cruiser that has received its final TOS/TAS ESLP refit late in that era, with the exact dating depending on which thread of the Trek multiverse you consult. She now sports a lot of the same features and internal systems as a regular Class I starship, along with newer Perth PB-32 or PB-33 circumferential warp engines depending on which spaceyard did the refit (NOTE - warp engine type as used in TOS/TAS proper). While no longer considered a front line heavy cruiser type in this era given the presence of the Constitution family, this refit still made Baton Rouge a more-than-capable second tier heavy cruiser or first tier light cruiser, depending on how you choose to classify her in your thread(s) of the Trek multiverse. In most of those during this timeframe Starfleet is going to use its Baton Rouges like its Mirandas, in that they get the less glamorous and more mundane or work-a-day missions and thus freeing up the Constitutions for tasks better suited for them. It's also near the end of this timeframe when class member USS Moscow assists the legendary USS Enterprise in the securing of the Klingon D-7 battlecruiser Korezima, after it had come out on the losing end of an encounter with a Chatalia generation ship (ref. TOS novel World Without End; see also my own FRS, Module 11, p. 14). This was the first Klolode class cruiser recovered relatively intact by the Federation and it was a big deal at the time. It was also the last major mission of the Moscow before she was decommissioned and retired due to her age, and is also widely considered to be the last major "feather in the cap" for the Baton Rouge class before it left Starfleet service for good.

I note in passing that by this point in time each member of the Baton Rouge class will have individual small variances given the number and kind of refits each has had over the long haul and who did them. In this example the old style Baton Rouge bridge and outer housing have been replaced with a standard Class I bridge and outer housing. Some got their full primary hull upper and lower works replaced, some got only partial replacements, and some got only a minimal swapout as did this one. Some were refitted with the later Nordenskjold class secondary hulls while the others retained their original secondary hulls but had their internals and systems upgraded for better Class I standard operational compatibility, such as this one. Some got replacement unified impulse decks as did this one while others retained their old style split impulse decks. And so on and so on. I also note that in some threads of the Trek multiverse at least one and perhaps a few more of the class never got the full series of Class I TOS/TAS era refits (save for systems and weapons upgrades and such), retaining both their original Pegasys VX-28 warp engines and pretty much their original appearance all the way to the end of their service lives near the end of the TOS/TAS era. I'll leave all the details of that up to you should you choose to incorporate that particular wrinkle in your own thread(s) of the Trek multiverse.

This is fanon although it is based on a semi-canon design (Rick's Baton Rouge, STSFC).

Live long and prosper.

P.S. - I'd like to personally thank Aridas Sofia, Captain Mojo, Neale Davison, Richard Merk, Dave Metlesits, Timo Saloniemi, and everyone else who has made their own unique contributions over the decades in helping me to bring you this grand overview of how the Baton Rouge class evolved during its many decades of Federation Starfleet service. (REM)

ASIDE - The final triumph of the old Baton Rouge class, the securing of the IKV Korezima, has an interesting analog in real world naval history. Look up the old World War II era British light carrier HMS Unicorn and how it became the only aircraft carrier in naval history (so far) to actively engage a contemporary pirate vessel in combat. True story! XD

Description

A mod and retexture by me of the wonderful STL format version of Baton Rouge by Captain Mojo, with textures and additional or replacement parts by Dave Metlesits of The First Fleet fame. Inspired by the appropriate schematics of the late Neale "Pixel Sagas" Davison, and based on the original Baton Rouge design by conceptual artist Rick Sternbach as first published in the Franchised licensed Star Trek Space Flight Chronology (STSFC). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

As the name says. This visual depicts a generic Baton Rouge class cruiser that has received its final TOS/TAS ESLP refit late in that era, with the exact dating depending on which thread of the Trek multiverse you consult. She now sports a lot of the same features and internal systems as a regular Class I starship, along with newer Perth PB-32 or PB-33 circumferential warp engines depending on which spaceyard did the refit (NOTE - warp engine type as used in TOS/TAS proper). While no longer considered a front line heavy cruiser type in this era given the presence of the Constitution family, this refit still made Baton Rouge a more-than-capable second tier heavy cruiser or first tier light cruiser, depending on how you choose to classify her in your thread(s) of the Trek multiverse. In most of those during this timeframe Starfleet is going to use its Baton Rouges like its Mirandas, in that they get the less glamorous and more mundane or work-a-day missions and thus freeing up the Constitutions for tasks better suited for them. It's also near the end of this timeframe when class member USS Moscow assists the legendary USS Enterprise in the securing of the Klingon D-7 battlecruiser Korezima, after it had come out on the losing end of an encounter with a Chatalia generation ship (ref. TOS novel World Without End; see also my own FRS, Module 11, p. 14). This was the first Klolode class cruiser recovered relatively intact by the Federation and it was a big deal at the time. It was also the last major mission of the Moscow before she was decommissioned and retired due to her age, and is also widely considered to be the last major "feather in the cap" for the Baton Rouge class before it left Starfleet service for good.

I note in passing that by this point in time each member of the Baton Rouge class will have individual small variances given the number and kind of refits each has had over the long haul and who did them. In this example the old style Baton Rouge bridge and outer housing have been replaced with a standard Class I bridge and outer housing. Some got their full primary hull upper and lower works replaced, some got only partial replacements, and some got only a minimal swapout as did this one. Some were refitted with the later Nordenskjold class secondary hulls while the others retained their original secondary hulls but had their internals and systems upgraded for better Class I standard operational compatibility, such as this one. Some got replacement unified impulse decks as did this one while others retained their old style split impulse decks. And so on and so on. I also note that in some threads of the Trek multiverse at least one and perhaps a few more of the class never got the full series of Class I TOS/TAS era refits (save for systems and weapons upgrades and such), retaining both their original Pegasys VX-28 warp engines and pretty much their original appearance all the way to the end of their service lives near the end of the TOS/TAS era. I'll leave all the details of that up to you should you choose to incorporate that particular wrinkle in your own thread(s) of the Trek multiverse.

This is fanon although it is based on a semi-canon design (Rick's Baton Rouge, STSFC).

Live long and prosper.

P.S. - I'd like to personally thank Aridas Sofia, Captain Mojo, Neale Davison, Richard Merk, Dave Metlesits, Timo Saloniemi, and everyone else who has made their own unique contributions over the decades in helping me to bring you this grand overview of how the Baton Rouge class evolved during its many decades of Federation Starfleet service. (REM)

ASIDE - The final triumph of the old Baton Rouge class, the securing of the IKV Korezima, has an interesting analog in real world naval history. Look up the old World War II era British light carrier HMS Unicorn and how it became the only aircraft carrier in naval history (so far) to actively engage a contemporary pirate vessel in combat. True story! XD