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MorganDonovan — Galaxy Class Refit Block II
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Published: 2015-01-09 19:39:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 6286; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 172
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With the end of the Dominion War well behind it, Starfleet decided to revisit the Galaxy class starship. Dunned by some for it's spotty pre-war survivability record (3 hulls lost within 10 years), the class had proven itself more capable once it's systems had been upgraded. Those upgrades saw the class through the war, but were considered more of a stop-gap measure by most interested parties. A series of external and internal changes (primarily to the saucer and nacelles, but also affecting the interconnecting dorsal and forward end of the secondary hull), some of which came from earlier drafts of the Galaxy original, as well as a major systems upgrade is expected to breathe new life into a class that was on the short list for early retirement just a few years ago.Original arts credits on image.
*Edit* New monitor showed my how badly overexposed many of my images could be. I fixed as best I could.
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The Galaxy's biggest weakness was it's spindly little chicken neck, while beautiful, it's a huge liability which can be solved simply by thickening it or armoring it's outside....
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AWESOME JOB!!!
I love your modification to the Galaxy Class design; especially the rounded saucer. I am not sure if you are familiar with the site engineering.thetafleet.net/Jou… , but they have basically reengineered, a new incarnation of the Galaxy hull form. two vessels drawing on the Galaxy-class design specs were up for consideration and were placed into production for exploration came to be known as the Frontier and Majestic class. While two were ruggedized and adapted for the realities of a combat heavy environment the ends results were the Kitty Hawk and Bismark-class starships.
Again, Beautiful Job and I hope you enjoy the link I found! engineering.thetafleet.net/Jou…
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I got to say, it looks better with a round saucer. Just looks more practical than a bloated lady.
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To be fair, two were lost due to encounters with unknown technologies...i.e. the Yamato because of the Iconian program and the Odyssey because of no previous experience defending against phased poloran weapons and then being rammed...keep in mind, the Galaxy, Venture and Challenger all served quite effectively during the war...Enterprise was lost because no one clued in on shifting shield frequencies, odd considering it was something they did with exhaustive regularity while fighting the Borg...saying it was a design flaw in the Galaxy Class that caused their loss would be like saying the Constitution was flawed because the Constellation couldn't take on the Doomsday Machine, the Intrepid a giant amoeba and the Defiant a previously unencoutered spatial rift, nevermind the Excalibur and her loss due to the M-5...
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Well, yes, you can make that (correct) case. However, in the "no holds barred" school of debate, that is exactly the case the detractors would make.
I'd augment your counter-argument by pointing out that there were more than just those three Galaxys in the War. As many as 10 can be seen in some fleet shots.
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I personally have never fully understood the vitriol some have heaped upon the Galaxy Class, while it did initially take some getting used to, I have come to feel the design has a certain elegance to it. And as you point out, if Starfleet did indeed go on to commission that many vessels, one can hardly argue the design was a failure, in need of refinement perhaps, but hardly the 'white elephant' many have tried to portray her to be. If she were, it would hardly have made any logical sense for the fleet to invest the vast resources needed to put ten into commission in such a short span of time if it were not an effective design.
Furthermore, as we do not ever actually see one lost in combat during the war(damaged yes, but still fighting on), one might surmise they were indeed a capable platform, especially if one accepts that they were put into service without being fully fitted out with all the scientific and crew accoutrement of a prewar hull.
Nevertheless, I must admit, this particular redesign with a more circular primary hull is quite compelling.
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Fair points.
I think that one of the points in favor of this redesign visually is it's similarity (which I think I pointed out up thread) to Probert's Enterprise-C, which has very nice lines.
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I hope the warp core ejection system was one of the upgrades.
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It didn't need to be upgraded, they just needed to remember to install it in the first place...
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Well then I hope that they finally implemented the Saucers capable of surviving a crash landing as shown in the "Rogue Saucer" Novel.
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Well the Galaxy class saucer of the Enterprise D did survive except for the Interior at the end of Generations
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No, She was declared Unsalvageable due to the irrecoverable alloy damage not to mention the lower decks of the saucer were most likely compacted.
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and i think that's how the sovereign class Enterprise came about
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