To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: "ronwaldyo "

Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

> Too big to get out of it's own way.
> One way to put it.  Size as a metaphor
> for the things that are wrong, rather
> than an expression of power.
>
> Usually, and I say usually when you
> see a ship touted as the biggest and
> best, there are issues involved that
> have nothing to do with the story,
> but with the author or authors.
> I like that idea of size as a problem.
> I would have to think a ship that size
> would have all sorts of teething
> problems.  Starfleet has never built
> one that big.  For a parallel look
> up the Great Eastern and see what she
> went through.  She likewise was
> about that much bigger than any ship
> before her.
>

Thanks for the Great Eastern reference. At least the Chamberlain didn't
take three months to get out to space, though
as is discussed in the second and third Dark Horizon stories the class
ship, Oceana, is having problems almost as severe.

One of the reasons I did go with a ship like the Oceana class was that I
had seen a number of fanfic sites with either the biggest and best, or
fastest, or newest technology and it almost always seems to work
flawlessly.  It seemed to me it would be interesting to take
the idea of "biggest", but take away the "best" part of
the equation and to give it as you say, "teething problems". I
had always thought it would have
been interesting if the same kind
of thing had been done at the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation
with the biggest and best Galaxy Class.


> I started to read your first story,
> but distractions have kept me away
> from it.  (Trying to wire a network,
> dealing with my own physical
> issues, etc.)  I will get back to it.

Let me know what you think of the first story after you finish it.  I'd be
curious to hear your observations and comments.

> I would think that she is due for a
> whole raft of problems related to
> the degree of complexity that a ship
> that size has, from experience that
> has never build a ship that size
> I would not want to be the first
> captian of the first ship.
>

As you will discover as you go through more of the stories that are already
on the site Captain Jack McCall is
beginning to come to that same realization and will continue to as the
larger story unfolds in future installments.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm



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