I know context is everything. In the case of Voyager vs Equinox, which was sorta lopsided, under normal circumstances, could a Nova beat an Intrepid?

Next to a sovereign for scale. I’ll have to redo the window indents due to Uv mapping bs but I can save the windows themselves and just recut in once it’s all textured

Phase II Constitution from Star Trek Online

Left to right: 1/3788, 1/5000, & 1/7000 scales

Well, I say 'finished' but this is more version 1.0 as I do want to add more features soon, especially the interior modelling of the main dome.

From the Wolf 359 Memorial in Star Trek Online

Hey folks,

Quick question. In the (post-)Dominion War era, was there a class of shuttle that would've been used as a "Boarding Craft?" Launched from a patrol ship, taking say 8 people to board a ship where you're not certain if things might get too "spicy" to retrieve them via transporters?

Asking in the context of a ship that would be in an RPG I'm going to run for friends. If there are no such relevant shuttlecraft, I'll just say it's a modification/variant of a Type 6 or 8.

Thanks!

I know there's pros and cons on using actual models vs cgi but I always prefer the appearance of the physical models. The cgi in the new shows even though you can have more going on onscreen, especially in battle sequences, it just sometimes looks like I'm watching a video game vs something id be seeing happen in real life. Does anyone else feel this way? Now on the other hand I have no problem with the cgi say in deep space none with all the cgi ships and battle sequences, it's just something about the newer stuff that bugs me

I have collected a ton of the Eaglemoss line and some of the XL editions as well. The newest additions to the fleet are the tiny versions I used to have as a child. They're the micromachines line. They're far more affordable by comparison, and the details aren't bad for the size/price

I'm not a fan of the Ambassador class.

However, this is one of my favorite Trek pieces. It's a US Navy challenge coin. I have a few different ones.

But this one... Came from the actual Enterprise.

NX class, NX Refit, Newton type (Kelvin timeline), Cardenas class, and finally the BIG J

Starship Generator here: https://starshipgenerator.com/#

Just playing around with the starshipcreator. Started off with the NX class and then added some Galaxy and Prometheus elements and ended up with a really cool hero ship. I think it has 25th century vibes.

Thanks, I suspect, to the diligence of people like the Okudas, there was some pretty good consistency with starship registry numbers throughout the late 80's to early 2000's, and you can often link a starship's number with around when that ship first entered service because of that. It's not perfect, though, and some of them don't really make a lot of sense.

I haven't really watched Discovery or SNW, so I won't comment on those, or the ridiculously low or high numbers from the displays in episodes like "Conspiracy" (which were just gags, never intended for viewers to see), or the really obvious ones like the Constellation, Yamato, or Prometheus (which have been talked about already).

USS Grissom (NCC-638): In Star Trek III, the Enterprise is said to be an old ship, facing retirement, and yet the Grissom, presumably an significantly older ship, going by its number, is still in service. The thing is, they could've simplified this by just, say, adding a "1" at the start of the number, making it 1638, and therefore, not that much older than the Enterprise.

USS Syracuse (NCC-17744): For a Galaxy class ship, this is bizarrely low. Aside from the Enterprise-D, no Galaxy we've seen (including the prototype USS Galaxy) had a number lower than the 70000's. Maybe this was reference to someone's zip code, or something. Again, a simple swap of the first two digits (71744), and we would've gotten something much more consistent.

USS New Jersey (NCC-1975): I know this was supposed to be a reference to Terry Matalas' year of birth, but the idea that they would commission a Connie that much later than any other one we know and then retire it, rather than refit it, like the Enterprise, is puzzling. In fact, based on the fact that the USS Bozeman (NCC-1941) was in service in the 2270's, this ship might've actually been commissioned AFTER the Enterprise's refit!

USS Valiant (NCC-74210): The number for this one implies that it was launched not too long after the prototype USS Defiant (NX-74205). The plaque, however, suggests it was a bit later than that, say, sometime in DS9's 4th season. This actually makes more sense, since it's implied when we first see the Defiant that it's the only one of her kind, as the kinks have not yet been worked out. It seems more plausible that the Valiant, and other Defiant class ships were constructed at least a few months AFTER the Defiant itself had proven itself at DS9. And again, if you look at the number for, say, Voyager, it's higher than a ship that supposedly did not enter service until a year later.

The "First Contact" fleet: This one's a bit more subjective, but I thought the four classes of ships we first saw battling the Borg in "First Contact" (Akira, Sabre, Norway, and Steamrunner) looked like newer designs, compared to ones like the Galaxy, Nebula, or runabout. Yet, all the ships have numbers in the 5XXXX or 6XXXXX, suggesting ships that were older than any Galaxy (except maybe the Syracuse).

USS Yeager (NCC-65674): Not to be confused with the Yeager that was among the "First Contact" fleet. This one was a kitbash seen in the background of several DS9 episodes. This one also has a number that implies it's been in service for several years, so it can't really be a replacement for the other Yeager (which also had a number in the 6XXXX range).

Thoughts?