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I want this ship. Anybody got any advice to aquire it?
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I cannot imagine why. That thing is uglier than the north end of a south-bound mule.
Your best option for acquiring this ship is to participate in Event Campaign III which upon completion will reward you with many options, one of which would be the Universe Class if you wanted it.
This has the advantage of being free.. and the disadvantage of the fact that it will take a substantial period of time. This Campaign is made up of 5 events, one of which has already completed. You can still complete it by participation in the remaining 4 events, but you're looking at probably the end of the year to claim the reward.
Your other options are simply put.. spend spend spend. You either buy keys, sell them on the exchange and buy the ship for EC or you use those keys to crank away on lock boxes hoping you win it. Spoiler alert.. you probably won't and you will just waste your money.
Your options are patience or break out your wallet.. the choice is yours.
I got one, and think it's a beauty. Right up there with the TOS connie itself.
I suspect the Universe class was their era's version of what the Galaxy class was supposed to be, a mobile small city in space for those ultra-long exploration (and other) deployments where the only practical way for a ship to do it is by taking families along. And like the Galaxy class it seems they were commandeered by the admiralty for other missions instead where their impressive size would intimidate and impress others since it appeared in a combat mission instead.
Only thing I dislike about it is this tiny nacelles that look like they're hanging on by superglue, I mean I know nacelles aren't exactly reinforced...but the J takes fragile look to a whole new level.
They're really only seem small in relation to the rest of the ship, compared to other ships both the nacelles and the pylons are actually pretty large.
Still, it looks like they're glued or welded on to the pylons instead of them being one whole structure like all other nacelles
Yeah.. but now the nacelles float.. so, design evolution?
Actually, the pylons go right though the nacelles like a hotdog on a stick, (probably because Drexler had almost no time to work on it), but it could be thought of as some requirement of the system, like the real world technique of using surface stress and compression to make glass tougher applied to some fantastic future super material.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/be/USS_Enterprise-J,_dorsal_view.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121221004633&path-prefix=en
(I guess the image is too large to show in the post itself)
Freaking awesome
Well, Smoke, I have great respect for your ability as an artist, so your opinion carries some weight with me. Different strokes for different folks, I guess
Speaking of that TOS Connie, I have a t6 Infinity ship box I haven't used yet. One of the choices is the Mirror Warship, which includes the skin for the classic Connie. I'm thinking that's probably how I'll go, but the Crossfield is also tempting...
To me, these ships are made from advanced alien worlds....where materials and techniques can result in 'fragile' looking ships and other constructs, BUT be mega strong. In "Wounded Sky", a TOS novel that inspired "Where no one has gone before", one of my FAV ever TNG episodes, Federation starship hulls are made from crystalline strands and are woven together.
Crossfield's ok in game.
It's only worth playing for fun, not for any sort of practicality. It's cumbersome, no matter the build you use, the console and trait are nothing to write home about and I'd only recommend it, if you really, really, really, REALLY just want to be flying around in a glimpse of an episode of Enterprise.
My exact argument for the Janeway. In reality, it's a terrible ship and also the aesthetics really don't do the Intrepid any justice.
Don't ever be shy about watching the YouTube review videos of any of these ships before you put your hand in your pocket.
What's the Excelsior Class got to do with this discussion?
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Speaking of the Crossfield and ships only seen onscreen for a few seconds, it would be great if they brought out the Planet of Titans ship that the Crossfield is very loosely based on and was seen for a few seconds in TMP and TNG.
While the PoT script was horrible the ship concept itself was interesting. Instead of a saucer with an add-on secondary engineering hull attached it was what ENT would call a warp delta with a big semi-autonomous crewed science pod/lander perched on the nose. The bridge was actually in the base of the neck somewhere, possibly where a delta's bridge would normally be with the structure of the neck built over/around it.
Star Trek got into a bit of a creative rut when it came to Federation ship design and that reversal of the expected would have been a welcome exception if Paramount had ever climbed out of it far enough. Unfortunately CBS has lately been going too far in the other direction and their refugees from Transformers are so generic they lose all of the feel of Star Trek ships.