I'd imagine maybe it would be nice if for the 50th next year, Cryptic began launching ships based on iconic Trek characters. The Spock class could, fittingly, be a hybrid of a classic Federation ship profile with Vulcan ship design elements and maybe not averse to a few Romulan flourishes here and there. Release it as a Romulan/Federation joint construction project.
I'd be wary about this being released NOW or just repurposing the next ship as a Spock class but it would work for me as part of a larger 50th anniversary celebration. And I was thinking about the larger ways you could do this.
I see the centerpiece as being three cross faction ships: The Spock (Fed/Rom), Chavranek (Klingon/Rom), and Rozhenko (Fed/Klingon).
Maybe also have a Charvanek (the name of the female Romulan commander who captained a D7 in "The Enterprise Incident") which is a Klingon/Romulan joint project and a Rozhenko (or Martok or Gorkon) class which is released for both Federation and Klingons. (I like Rozhenko in honor of Worf's foster parents. His father was an engineer. You could make this a ship with something of a Fed feel with a Klingon mode... like the saucer separates and the nacelles come down and you're suddenly dealing with a Bird of Prey.)
Being joint faction ships would free Cryptic up to perhaps make them extra special.
And then through the year, they could have other shuttles and ships with attributes based on the personalities of iconic Trek characters in their playstyle.
I could see a Kirk class with an Ambassador/Connie style profile sating some of those T5/T6 Connie desires. A small ship (Kirk always took on guys twice his size) with some firepower and a bluffing mechanic and probability altering built into the design (ie. resistance to procs, increased rate of weapon proc, that kind of thing).
A Scott class which does seemingly impossible things with its engines (maybe an ability that halts the engines to charge up and then overloads them for a turbocharged boost of speed and turnrate with a knockback). A Chang class with a predatory quality as a T6 BoP (I don't know it needs the fire while cloaked since you could plug that console onto this ship). A Sela class with a berserker playstyle. A Reed class Intelligence ship. Maybe something Jadzia Dax inspired with escape pods along its neck that echo Trill spots with a power similar to priest "Mind Control" in other games where you have pods shoot out from the escape pod hatches to do a kind of boarding party attack... and if they succeed, the player takes control of the enemy ship for a random amount of time, up to 2 minutes, broken if the control ship takes too much damage.
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