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

-+- In trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com, Garry Stahl  wrote:
>
> The attach is a picture of a Galaxy class next to the
> (unfinished) Acceptian Mothership (oh, the little thing
> at the bottom?  Nimtz class aircraft carrier)  Why is
> the Acceptian ship the size it is?  It's a wedge of whup
> ass, ground pounding planet subduing whup ass.  It's a
> troop carrier.  30,000 ground troops, support for her
> escort  vessels, and the big orbit to surface guns to
> slag cities.  Oppression in a can.
> When the Federation builds big it's the explorers.

(Sorry this got broken up into two replies, but I couldn't see the attached
image in my e-mail so I had to come by the Yahoo Group site to see it.)

A great point.  One of the things I made certain of was that the
Chamberlain wasn't seen as a battleship in the first story, but as an
explorer going to the planet Hel'yra to uncover a mystery.

Again, while one of the reasons the Oceana ships got built intially was the
Borg and Dominion threats it was designed to have a wider mission profile
than just that.

By the way, I like the design of the Acceptian Mothership. It has a rather
ominous look to it.

> I would have made the nacelles relatively smaller
> myself.  But that's my sense of ascetics
> speaking.

Hmmmm.  Now that I think about it, that might have looked better.  We'll
have to see if the Chamberlain makes it to a refit.  :)

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



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