Okay...
As someone who loves his Escorts, I'd really like some iconic escorts from the series aside from the Defiant and Akira. So my question I pose to other players is: What iconic escorts can you think of...?
There are some larger warships that might make interesting carriers (for example, the Husnock ships -- which were particularly powerful in Decipher's trading card game) but I'm curious what the rest of you can come up with.
What springs to mind, for me:
Warship Voyager - From a corrupted account of Voyager in the episode "Living Witness". Fictional within Star Trek lore but visually distinct from the standard Intrepid class.
HMS Bounty - A commandeered Klingon ship staffed by the original Enterprise crew.
The Warship Enterprise - A Galaxy Class Warship from the alternate timeline in "Yesterday's Enterprise". Identical to the standard Galaxy class.
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I'd settle for non-canon. Aside from the examples I gave, I can pretty much only find pen and paper RPG ships although two of those crossed over into the comic books and a lot of those basically had the same design as the Kelvin from Star Trek 2009.
The Akula Class both resembles a lot of non-canon warship/escort/destroyer designs and at least has the benefit of appearing in a TON of licensed material.
Akula class ships appeared in Starfleet Battles, Starfleet Command, Klingon Academy and Shattered Universe.
Hmm, might have to reload SFC to see all the ships in all 3 games.
Frigates.....seriously atmoic? I think Escorts imo is better than frigates, but makes me feel like it HAS to escort something else, which to me is a negative. hmm...
I dont think that was a husnock ship, since the husnock were all wiped out by that alien with Q like powers. That was his warship he even used against the Husnock, but only made them more angry.
Possibly, but I also remember a TNG trading card game with that ship in it, and its name on that card was "Husnock Warship". The implication was that Kevin Uxbridge (a douwd, incidently) recreated the ship that had laid waste to Rana IV.
See, that is kind of my point. Most escorts were typically detailed to escort duty or minor patrol duties. Frigates were to augment firepower and such. Although, I would venture to say the Defiant was more of an attack ship than either a frigate or escort.
Escorts are Destroyers plain an simple.
The only reason Starfleet doesn't call them Destroyers is because it too aggressive.
I would say that is debatable, not the second part, the first part.
Not necessarily. Escort is just a hull variant. DDE is an escort destroyer, whereas DDG is a guided weapons destroyer. There's also CLE, an escort light cruiser, or FFE, an escort frigate. Just about any hull type can be an escort, it just depends on its weapon loadout.
More heavily based on the original Defiant/Pathfinder schematic, it would be a mean little thing.
I actually wish that was in the game.