Descriptions of your ships' movement

mneme0

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

While flying a Na'khul raider I thought to myself: "This ship flies like a smashed bat glued to a throwing star." I can recall other impressions the maneuvering capabilities of various ships have given me. What other ship and flying experiences have you folks had?

dabelgrave

My Tadaari Raider moves like a bat chasing a boomerang.​​

conkav22

Pilot escort : Jet fighter on ice (In a good way)

antonine3258

Like an albatross playing at hummingbird, the Vastam-class warbird slid into orbit.

alcyoneserene

[Post redacted] because I apparently missed the point of this thread.

misterloz

I'm frankly amazed that you managed to write something twice and yet still missed the point.

lopequil

"All hands on deck, swirly thing alert!"

plaztikman64

The annorax - a spear filled with science magic and torpedo balls, yummiest

tenderbits

"Yeah! But a great looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow." -Ford Prefect Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Describes my Fed T6 Carrier quite accurately.

e30ernest

I have a Scryer that flies like a toilet seat flung from parts unknown, a Dauntless that scoots by like a spooked squid and an Intrepid that flies like it had rubber bands attached to its nacelles.

snoggymack22

I always felt the Galaxy class ships I flew moved like Greg Oden on a fast break, and turned like a couch wedged in a door that neither me nor my friends could budge.

gathrn

Unfortunately, my ship flies like it looks... A slug. At first I thought I could make it work as it was an angry slug... Now I think it was just indigestion.

captxpendable

For Cruisers in general.

"You move like a pregnant yak."

jtoon74

The D'deridex, Voq'uv and Exploration Cruiser are horrendous on manouverabilty, you have to get the right build and slap in those turn rate consoles and theyare still like bricks.

alphahydri

"Pilot Escorts are relatively large starships with the seemingly miraculous ability to fly about and maneuver like itty-bitty fighters."

I'd imagine that on my Pilot Escorts everybody is walking around in sealed haz-mat suits or has barf bags tied to their faces. All those barrel rolls and abrupt flips on a ship with multiple decks must mean that vomit fills the corridors and Jefferies tubes!

As much fun as they are to fly, I can't imagine it's practical for a ship like that to maneuver like a fighter. Just looking at the size of them compared to other ships, only the KDF Pilot Raptors are very small (i.e. smaller/equal to the size of a BoP). The Fed ones are bigger than the Defiant class, which just makes it even more comical.

The inertial dampeners and gravity plating must be hella strong on those things to make sure the crew isn't so disoriented and motion-sick that they can't even function. Not to mention that anything not bolted down would fly everywhere. If Picard captained a Pilot Escort all his precious archaeological artifacts would be ruined, LOL.

Maybe missed the point here, but I still chuckle whenever I think of my crew flailing all over the place whenever using those pilot maneuvers, a la BB-8 in Episode VII during the Millennium Falcon chase scene on Jakku.

mustrumridcully0

"The Scryer turned like a donut in a café near the Police Station as if The Blues Brothers just drove by and caused a hasty deperature by the local police officers, except with more gravity wells."

theraven2378

My Valiant just zips past saying Meep Meep

nikeix

This thread made me laugh really hard. Usually I like the performance of my ships or I put turn rate bonuses on them until I do. I guess there are a few you just have to accept aren't ever going to be graceful.

Paradox Class:
"The ISS Abyss glides like the manta ray he's modeled after. It's still a mystery to me why those don't get eaten more often..."

Eclipse Class (geared for turn rate and durability):
"The USS Prophetess enters the fray like a thrown knife: straight in at flank speed. But once she's in the churn she rolls her hips like a Orion dancer."

Llaihr Class (Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer)
"Every time we enter slipstream, I'm certain its going to tear a seven light-year long bloody gash in the fabric of subspace."

dlmc85

Damn, i love this thread!

jade1280

Vo'Quv carrier = No coffee
Vo'Quv carrier with 2 RCS consoles = After coffee


coffee addicts will get it.

mustrumridcully0

"The Jupiter Carrier has a skin as tough of that of a Terran Jaguar, and stops just as fast. Only thing missing are the trunk and the ivory tusks" - Andorian Captain that failed the exobiology exam twice in his Academy years...

semalda226

The Annorax turns like a Cigar Tube in space.

jtoon74

alphahydri wrote: »

"Pilot Escorts are relatively large starships with the seemingly miraculous ability to fly about and maneuver like itty-bitty fighters."

Thats more to do with poor scaleing I think, Tacitcal Escorts had a crew of 50, Pilot Escorts 45 although they erroniously seem to have about 8+ decks on the ship model.

talonxv

My Jupiter looks like a squid, turns like an Iowa Class Battleship and stops slower than a mac truck on ice.

mneme0

The Yamato travels faster than a speeding bullet, but even with an RCS console she turns like an old lady with her turn signal left on.

antonine3258

The Galaxy-class, readied its wings, pumping power to deflectors and engines, and politely told inertia to go somewhere else as it went to full impulse, racing across the system.

catsmeat

The Manasa.

She doesn't just fly, she dances!

bloodyriz

The Risian Corvette surfed the solar waves like a beach bunny on a 30 foot curl.​​