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Federation Hospital Ship!
irishhawkdrake
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This is the right time for a science ship based on the navel hospital ships. Allow us to play out our medical dramas in space aboard our giant flying hospitals! Give it a white hull with red medical insignia. Our captains would be wearing one of those cool white Starfleet uniforms! Please Cryptic, HEAD THE CALL OF THE ADVENTURING HOSPITAL SHIP! 
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IIRC it does have a T6 varient, a temporal vessel yeah?
No. You're thinking the T2 Daedelus, which is a TOS era ship.
People are referring to this ship.
Which the in game version has a slightly different design.
I'd sure love to see a T6 variant of the Pasteur for sure, I'd even welcome one on the Klingon or Romulan side as well.
#LegalizeAwoo
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An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
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"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Now a "medical ship" skin for the pre-existing classes that are suppose to be hospital ships sure but designing a ship from the ground up to be a hospital ship seems unlikely simply due to there not really being a viable option how to integrate it to the current game-mechanics (and no, a ship that intentionally is meant to do absolutely nothing during encounters is never gonna happen).
Also the Red Cross symbol is both not the canon symbol for Starfleet medical ships (you see the canon symbol at the TNG screencaps there) and more importantly is copyrighted to the organization of the same name.
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
They still need treatment, and escape pods for that matter. If we assume every battle lost Klingon fleets just self-destruct, the empire would run out of ships and warriors rather quickly
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Indeed for those not up to speed in their greco-roman myths, the Caducues is the symbol of Hermes/Mercurius the messenger of the gods and has nothing to do with healing what so ever. Asclepius is an ancient greek god of medicine so obviously his rod ended up as the symbol of medicine.
The difference is that caducues has two serpents and the staff is winged (it actually the symbol of shiftness that's associated with Hermes as I stated before), while the rod of Asclepius has single serpent and no wings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_of_Asclepius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
You don't seem to grasp the magnitude of what you're asking, pretty much all ship specialities so far have used pre-existing mechanics, where as your suggestion would demand Cryptic to make a mechanic unique to this ship type. Basically you're asking for a ship that at the same time has to get envolved in combat and cannot get involved in combat, could the devs solve it, maybe however I cannot see them trying anytime soon.
But still... we have a canon Medical ship, and the associated class. We just need a T6 version as well as a canon model.
I think Medical being under science might in fact be reason why the medical symbol in TNG is dark blue, blue being the traditional Starfleet color for "science".
There, you effectively have a "Hospital" Ship. And the fun bit is that works for all the factions.
See? THAT'S a productive response. I appreciate your input and I just may do this.
Well... Science and Medical have pretty much ALWAYS shared the same departmental color. I think the only oddball might be the TMP movies with the nice WoK uniforms.
Even in Discovery, while having white uniforms, they still had the same departmental color as Science.
So I went and bought a Brigid Multi-Mission Surveillance Explorer and slotted that Lukari Protomater console in it. Looking around for other consoles to put in.
Protomatter is good, personally I'd suggest consoles that either passively buff the team in a way you consider as "taking care of the wounded" personally I'd steer away from any hull healing consoles as that's not medical it's engineering and what you want is a moving hospital not a moving spacedock.
That said protomatter and hazzard emitters are good choices for that (you justify hazzard emitters as decontamination and the way protomatter works it should heal the crew along repairing the hull) then seek out consoles and powers that either do hazzard debuff cleasing from others or boost the target ship in a way that could be considering "healing the crew", oh and tractor beams you got to pick up the escape pods some way and who says those couldn't be used for self-defense if needed, that way if you can afford it the console from the Klingon Sarcophagus ship could fit the team (its active power is a bunch of tractor beams).
Got the repelling tractor beams and Science Team III slotted. I'll fit in the Hazard Emitters. Found a white hull and gave it red trim
True for our world but might not be true for Star Trek, since while UFP (aka Starfleet) wouldn't target medical ships, same cannot be said of the other races (let alone things like pirates) so limited self-defense weapons are probably a must, still that should be weaker then dedicated combat vessels, think like merchant vessels compared to man-o-wars during the age of sail.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Well, no. Klingons see wounds taken in honourable battle as a good thing. There is a reason Martok didn't let Bashir repair his eye.