So I have finally reached T4 and got my escort hybrid. And the game switched from just ok to awesome. Just fighting near some Galaxies, flying my Defiant, shooting things left and right. I have some screenshots. I dont know why, but that little kid inside is having really blast.
Also Pvp is blast now - I just finished a maybe 20-25 min cracked planet - deathmatch. No more instapop for escorts. Just pure fun, shooting, switching targets (after they use Rotate shield freq). Also one science ship can dish over 200k healing now. Pure fun.
Sad part? After only 1 hour on captain I have already gained a lvl.

My ship

PVP

Deep space
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DS9's Defiant, TNG's Galaxy,and VOY's Intrepid.
T5 kinda loses that awesome. Although the sovereign is incredibly sexy, none of the other ships are very interesting or played any kind of pivotal role in the series, in fact half of them were made up by cryptic and aren't all that involving or interesting.
First being all Galaxy class variants look ugly as sin.
And second, shield rings around ships look awful and tacky.