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-+- In trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com, "Steve Oostrom" 
wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what assumptions don't you agree with?

Nothing all that major, just a few things about how you have your universe set up...

The quadrant situation for the Galaxy.  While on one level I agree with
your thinking about the Alpha/Beta line, for me the quadrant borders have
been established well enough to this point in Produced Trek that I go
pretty much with what they've got.

I see your position about hybrid species individuals much the same way. 
From a purely scientific view I'd tend to agree with your thinking, but
again some individuals have become so well established as being mixed that
I tend to accept it.  In fact, one of my characters, Melissa Vargas, is
half human-half vulcan, but raised by her human father as a human.

I'm not sure I would have gone with something like the Odonan Warp drive. 
But I do really like it in your stories.

Like I said, nothing all that major, and certainly nothing that detracts
from the stories.

> As for very big starships, I don't have a problem
> with the Chamberlain's size (but I do with its name;
> since Joshua Chamberlain is not the best known
> Chamberlain in history, the ship should be called
> fully "U.S.S. Joshua Chamberlain," but can be referred
> to as "Chamberlain" when quick reference is
> necessary--just my opinion).

Do you know how hard it would have been to squeeze "U.S.S. Joshua
Lawrence Chamberlain" on the 3D model?  :)

> Another problem with the Chamberlain is that it
> looks like a smaller ship simply scaled up.
> I would think that a 2 km ship would have a different
> shape, and perhaps more closely resemble a starbase.

I tried out about four different shapes when designing the model and
finally settled on the version on the site. I did not consider the idea of
making it resemble a starbase.  Interesting idea.  But how would the warp
drive work for a shape like that?

> Arosian Battlesphere--this would be the ultimate
> gun-bunny ship, something like 4 km in diameter,
> over 400 decks and still enough room in the base to
> hold large ships, even Galaxy-class.  This ship
> was so big that warp drive was inadequate, and it
> got around using a wormhole generator.  It had
> 150 high-powered weapons placements all around
> it simply because it could not really move that
> well and had to provide fire in any direction
> if attacked.  The Battlesphere was the mobile
> command centre for the Arosian forces.

Now that's a big ship.

> Reading "Dark Horizon," I'm getting the feeling
> that the Oceana-class is a work in progress, with
> lots of bugs to be worked out.

Most definitely. Lots of bugs.

> In addition, in Steve-Trek, they're working on mass-sensitive
> weapons to deal with the Borg, basically "the bigger they are,
> the bigger they blow," as the weapon uses the ship's mass
> against it.  I'd hate to see the Chamberlain get hit with
> that one, although the weapon has not been deployed (the
> Borg have kind of disappeared from the Steve-Trek universe
> after "Species Two").

Interesting idea.  How would you envision that working?

> Just some views... but I'm liking "Dark Horizon" anyway.

Glad you like it and thanks for reading.

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



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