Why is it that whenever a discussion about Canon in STO comes up, someone always brings up the Galaxy-X as being one of the deviations STO has taken from Canon?
In "All Good Things" the future timeline is 2395 (In the 'present' Picard asks Worf what the date is, and he says 47899.. which would be 2370 and in the future Jeordi and Picard talk about it being 25 years since then, though it could been later than that because they were talking about it being 25 years since they were on the Enterprise.)
Star Trek Online is set in 2409-2410, 15 years later.
Star Trek Video Materials that feature the Galaxy-X Dreadnaught:
Video Game: Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Birth of the Federation
* USS Agrippa
* USS Arizona
* USS Aurora
* USS Belfast
* USS Berwick
* USS Brooklyn
* USS Calypso
* USS Crusader
* USS Emerald
* USS Galaxy
* USS Glasgow
* USS Gorizia
* USS Huntington
* USS Kitakami
* USS Konigsberg
* USS Kwon Do
* USS Lee
* USS Liepzig
* USS Memphis
* USS Montcalm
* USS Nagara
* USS Odyssey
* USS Raleigh
* USS Roanoke
* USS Sendai
* USS Taranto
* USS Venezia
* USS Venture
* USS Yamato
* USS Young
Video Game: Star Trek: DS9 - The Dominion Wars
* USS Agrippa
Canon Galaxy Vessels refit to be Dreadnaughts (according to Birth of the Federation)
* USS Galaxy
* USS Venture
* USS Yamato
Sure, we know now that the Enterprise-D does not become a Galaxy-X Dreadnaught due to it being replaced by the Sovereign-Class Enterprise-E after the Enterprise-D went ka-boom... but since there was never a series set in the 25th Century, we never get to see the Galaxy-X go into full production, but it's appearance in officially licensed materials (aka Soft-Canon) is good enough for me.
Technically, the Galaxy-X is from Q's fantasy scenario he creates for Picard as a final test and as a means of passing judgment over humanity.
All the stuff you list really isn't canon: they're licensed works. Not that I'm a fan of canon: I think it's a impediment to some good ideas (and the TOS writers felt that way too).
Q's fantasy scenario wasn't specifically stated to be nothing but a fantasy... He's Q. He could have thrown him in those eras for real. Obviously events have changed though.
Even if it was pure fiction Q has the knowledge to know how to populate it with facts. There's absolutely nothing that says the Galaxy-X couldn't have been based on the real deal in the future.
Anyways, anyone who says the Galaxy-X isn't canon is just wrong. Ignore them.
Games are considered non-canon.
Sources like the Technical Manuals are considered soft-canon.
Particularly BotF is a bad example in some respects as far as games go.
For example in that game the Negh'var was smaller than the Vor'cha and served as an artillery platform like the Nebula.
Only the small and large BoP could cloak all other Klingon ships could not.
Ferengi had the most heavily armed ship in that game, the Marauder which was the counterpart to the Sovereign while the K't'inga outperformed the Ambassador...
Sorry but you're comparing the representation in one game to that in another not with canon.
The Star Cruisers, Vespa, Excalibur, Celesital, Envoy, Majestic and Noble aren't exactly canon.
There is no logical argument that the Federation won't make the Galaxy X.
All we know is that we saw it in a Fantasy, it wasn't explained how or why they built it. So equally there is nothing to say that they won't or didn't. As of this game they did.
Games are considered non-canon.
Sources like the Technical Manuals are considered soft-canon.
Particularly BotF is a bad example in some respects as far as games go.
For example in that game the Negh'var was smaller than the Vor'cha and served as an artillery platform like the Nebula.
Only the small and large BoP could cloak all other Klingon ships could not.
Ferengi had the most heavily armed ship in that game, the Marauder which was the counterpart to the Sovereign while the K't'inga outperformed the Ambassador...
Sorry but you're comparing the representation in one game to that in another not with canon.
The USS Agrippa appeared in BotF -and- DS9 - Dominion Wars. This is a Ship Class that appeared in Canon (AGT) and was never contradicted. Other ships in AGT like the USS Pasteur exist in Canon too, so I would assume that with the exception of it maybe being the Enterprise-F instead of D, with Data as the Captain rather than Sam Lavelle (That was the Captain of the Enterprise-D Dreadnaught, not Admiral Riker. "All Good Things" novelization.)
So, I don't care what anyone says.. to me, the Galaxy-X is and always will be Canon until CBS produces a Film or Television Series set in the 25th Century to contradict AGT's version of the future.
I agree, the Galaxy X belongs in this game, the only thing left for them to do right now is to make it a viable ship to fly, right now its too slow and that Lance has too long of a cooldown, 3 minutes is totally unacceptable with how often it misses.
I agree, the Galaxy X belongs in this game, the only thing left for them to do right now is to make it a viable ship to fly, right now its too slow and that Lance has too long of a cooldown, 3 minutes is totally unacceptable with how often it misses.
True. A Refit of the Galaxy-X to make it a proper Tier 5 Ship would be nice. Better turning rate for it's phase cannons, same cooldown as Beam Overload 3 for the Spinal Phaser Lance (That's all it is, a phaser BO3!), proper BOff and Console slots. If they did that, I'd buy it for 1200 CP/500 emblems!
That third nacelle was meant to increase it's speed and turning... that's why it was given extra phase cannons to begin with.
The USS Agrippa appeared in BotF -and- DS9 - Dominion Wars. This is a Ship Class that appeared in Canon (AGT) and was never contradicted. Other ships in AGT like the USS Pasteur exist in Canon too, so I would assume that with the exception of it maybe being the Enterprise-F instead of D, with Data as the Captain rather than Sam Lavelle (That was the Captain of the Enterprise-D Dreadnaught, not Admiral Riker. "All Good Things" novelization.)
So, I don't care what anyone says.. to me, the Galaxy-X is and always will be Canon until CBS produces a Film or Television Series set in the 25th Century to contradict AGT's version of the future.
1. I only stated the above: that BotF is a bad reference, nothing more nothing less.
2. I did NOT state that it is impossible for this ship to exist, I did not speak to that matter at all.
3. The AGT future IS CONTRADICTEDIN THIS GAME since the Klingon Empire has
not conquered the Romulans 25 years after the end of TNG.
But that was not the issue that I stated, I only pointed out the simple fact that games are
considered non-canon.
As for what you care or don't care about: I don't care if you care or not.
However when you open a thread where you say you consider games a soft-canon source
you should at least accept that people might point out that a game is not canon,
or is that too much for you to endure?
My favorite explanation for how the Galaxy-X can be canon-ified is one that I made up:
Antonus and his surviving crew members have since been reassigned to the USS Visionary-A, a prototype dreadnought Galaxy-X cruiser designed by Jean-Luc Picard. Its construction was overseen at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards by Admiral William T. Riker.
That is part of my character's bio. If you recall, the only person who remembered Q's anti-time reality (besides Q himself) was Picard. Because Picard is the only person to have experienced this reality, he is familiar with the design of the kick-TRIBBLE Galaxy-X which single-handedly tore through two Klingon Negh'Var vessels (one is destroyed, the other is forced to retreat). In his old age, when he is nothing more than an Ambassador to Vulcan, who is to say that he would not explore something like starship design? The modifications to the original Galaxy are relatively minimal, so it is not like the plans would require an engineering genius like Scotty or LaForge. I put in the part about Admiral Riker overseeing its construction as a nod to the fact that it was he who commanded the Enterprise-D Galaxy-X refit in "All Good Things..."
In STO timeline, Crusher still becomes Captain of the USS Pasteur, so it is logical to assume that other similarities would occur between Q's projection of a future and the events of STO. Perhaps the development of the future in every aspect is slightly polluted by the fact that Picard has this foreknowledge and that is why some events occur in both realities. Lets face it, Picard's notion of the temporal prime directive is fluid at best if you see "A Matter of Time" when he gives the speech about bending the rules occasionally being "the right thing to do."
Picard doesn't have the knowledge to design a whole ship. He's not an engineer. And I don't think he's remember enough to be able to recreate it.
But it was a fun read.
But you don't become captain of a ship without knowing its inner workings. So the few modifications of the dreadnought wouldn't take that much work to figure out.
I think you overestimate their knowledge. Geordi could probably do it with several years of work. Data too.
Captain's aren't all knowing. They at least know the basics. If anyone could do it then it would be Sisko who has actual experience helping design a ship. Possibly Janeway but she was more of a scientist than an engineer.
They defer to the greater knowledge in their crew. They didn't know EVERYTHING.
Kirk was... I don't know, a badbutt cowboy specialist.
Picard was more of a diplomat and had a great knowledge in history.
Sisko was a mix. He had great technical knowledge and was a great combat leader.
Janeway is the scientist, more comparable to Spock.
The one things the Captains have in common is their ability to command. Much like in real life they'd have specialties and degrees elsewhere too. Much like in real life though a Captain of a Battleship knows the basic functions and could even help probably repair a bit in an emergency unless they specifically come from that background they likely aren't specialize in that.
Picard could certainly lead a team in designing a new ship but it would be more of an administrative role and I doubt he's help considerably towards the Engineeering aspects (he's help, just not nearly as much as other people could like Geordi and the other Engineers who specialize in Engineering).
The reason people doubt the legitimacy of the Galaxy-X is because the Galaxy-X was shown in an "alternate future" scenario, which did not come to pass.
This alternate future was also portrayed prior to the launch of the Sovereign Class, which is the canon succssor to the Galaxy Class, just as the Galaxy was the successor to the Ambassador.
So because the Galaxy-X's future did not come to pass, there is no reason to believe that it was ever created. In addition to this, the Dominion War comes into play in historical events, which certainly shaped the future of the Galaxy Class, as ships were lost and not replaced.
If Star Trek had come out with another series, post DS9 / VOY, one could postulate that the Galaxy would have assumed the role that the Excelsior played in TNG and DS9, as a background ship, with the Sovereign being more prominent, and a new ship replacing the Sovereign as the Enterprise.
Just as with the Galaxy-X, one can also argue the following would never have existed in canon timeline:
"Rhode Island" Nova Refit
"All Good Things" / "Endgame" future uniforms
Dr. Crusher commanding the USS Pastuer
Geordi LaForge commanding the USS Challenger
Borg Time Travel device being acquired by Starfleet that Chakotay stole to change the fate of Voyager crashing on that frozen rock. Thus, Section 31 having access to it in order to bring us back at the end of the Devidian series.
There is no reason to believe it was ever NOT created. If you go by what you see there's more reason to believe it was. Though events didn't happen that way that doesn't mean that the Galaxy didn't get refit eventually. We saw it. I assume it was presented by Q as a possible future, possibly the real future at the time (obviously it diverged).
There is no reason to believe it was ever NOT created. If you go by what you see there's more reason to believe it was. Though events didn't happen that way that doesn't mean that the Galaxy didn't get refit eventually. We saw it. I assume it was presented by Q as a possible future, possibly the real future at the time (obviously it diverged).
Q's alternate future doesn't account for the two major event's that DID take place in the timeline of the Galaxy class.
1. The Dominion War
2. Sovereign Class
The Dominion War significantly reduced the number of ALL Starfleet ship classes, including the Galaxy, which according to some Trek writers, there were only a dozen or so Galaxy class ships in existence during the era of TNG, DS9 and Voyager. So based on that, coupled with any losses during the Dominion War, as well as the Sovereign Class being the next "Ship of the Line", it could be postulated that the Galaxy Class would be retired, rather than it's life extended through refit. If the Galaxy Class was in abundance, then a refit would make sense. But if only a handful still existed when the Sovereign class was being launched, then it wouldn't make sense to invest time, resources and materials to refitting such a small number of ships. Instead, you'd leave them as is, and let them be retired through attrition, or when a Sovereign became available for assignment and decommissioning a Galaxy Class.
Let me state, I don't have issue with the ship being in the game. It's fine, and I don't really care. But I don't believe canon arguments apply, since we don't know that it actually ever came to be.
The future didn't have to account for those. There's no reason to. It never said that they didn't happen. They could have still happened. I don't understand why you think they HAD to be accounted for. There's no links. The Sovereign-class might still have happened in the alternate future. We just never saw it (the Enterprise was not the first Sovereign-class ship). The Dominion war might have still happened too.
I'm not seeing how any of those are important at all. There's no reason that the Galaxy refit couldn't exist either way for either of those. Had the dominion war not happened in that future or not. Had the sovereign existed or not. Also, since designing ships takes decades I think it's safe to say the Sovereign still existed anyways.
I see no reason the Galaxy X is considered anything but canon. Really if Picard sends a report to Starfleet HQ about a Galaxy refit with a third nacelle and a spinal cannon, well how hard is it to get engineers looking at creating that? They know what they want to build, so working out the details is part of engineering a new ship.
Just because Q fabricated the future doesn't mean anything really. Q created science fiction, essentially. And as we all should know in a Star Trek forum, science fiction can often inspire actual scientific discovery.
And who is to say the Galaxy X wouldn't have actually been invented anyways? There is no way to know for sure. Starfleet does have a history of refitting ships like the Constitution, the Excelsior, so why not a Galaxy Refit?
I have to agree the Gal X is canon and I also agree that it needs work answer me this why is the cool down on the new klink cruiser 2 min and the Gal X lance 3.
So because the Galaxy-X's future did not come to pass, there is no reason to believe that it was ever created. In addition to this, the Dominion War comes into play in historical events, which certainly shaped the future of the Galaxy Class, as ships were lost and not replaced.
Actually, the Dominion War was where we started seeing evolution towards the Galaxy X with the addition of the modified nacelles and the phaser lance.
therefore the galaxy x is confirmed as being in both time lines from a soft canon perspective.
there is no real evidence to say whether the galaxy x was produced in the hard canon time line or not. until a film or show confirms it that will remain up in the air.
there is not much else to it really.
soft canon; yes
hard canon; confirmed in Q reality. unconfirmed in prime reality.
In Encounter at Farpoint, looking at Data's pips he has the rank of Lieutenant Command. In All Good Things, past-Data is only LT junior grade. Either Data really screwed up his uniform that day (something he would never do), or the whole time travelling thing never happened, it was all a fantasy cooked up by Q and so it's as real as the Warship Voyager. Then again, the Galaxy-X is pretty cool looking, and there's no reason why someone wouldn't think "Hey, a third nacelle would look pretty badass on the Galaxy class"
I would ignore it if it was just one scene, but it happens in them all. I think it (and other things, such as Q's criticism of TNG as a whole, his title dropping etc) was a clue from Q to Picard (and us viewers) that what happened wasn't a 'true' event. Kind of like 'The Inner Light', where Picard lived for 30 years as another person, having a family etc yet later on claiming he never had children, because what happened wasn't 'true'
Technically, the Galaxy-X is from Q's fantasy scenario he creates for Picard as a final test and as a means of passing judgment over humanity.
All the stuff you list really isn't canon: they're licensed works. Not that I'm a fan of canon: I think it's a impediment to some good ideas (and the TOS writers felt that way too).
Wait a second....that was not Q's fantasy. It was the Anti-time future.
For all the people who claim Picard doesn't know how his ship works, I site the scene in Insurrection where he can tell that there is a "phase variance" or some technothing that is out of alignment simply by using his EARS!
To all those claiming Q just "made up" the Galaxy X - why would he go to all the trouble of inventing an entire Federation starship class? It's much more likely that what was seen in the Anti-Time reality was a separate quantum reality that he merely copied for the purposes of his experiment. Even despite the "shortage" of Galaxy class hulls mentioned earlier in the thread, there is still good reason for the Prime Federation to want to explore this kind of refit - the Galaxy hull is still one of the biggest available, and they will still need big ships with big firepower.
To all those claiming Q just "made up" the Galaxy X - why would he go to all the trouble of inventing an entire Federation starship class? It's much more likely that what was seen in the Anti-Time reality was a separate quantum reality that he merely copied for the purposes of his experiment. Even despite the "shortage" of Galaxy class hulls mentioned earlier in the thread, there is still good reason for the Prime Federation to want to explore this kind of refit - the Galaxy hull is still one of the biggest available, and they will still need big ships with big firepower.
Here is the thing though...why bother with a third warp nacelle?
It doesn't make the ship go faster.
It doesn't make the ship more efficient.
It adds mass to a ship that already turns like a massive flying brick.
Because of it's position on the hull, it can't be used to create a stable warp field if you lose one of the outboard nacelles.
I can see the other improvements to the ship being beneficial. The Lance, the Cloak, etc. But the Third Nacelle looks tacked on, and in terms of Trek Science, provided no additional benefit to the ship. Starfleet Engineers would be better off refitting the ship with the lance and the claok, and leaving it at that.
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All the stuff you list really isn't canon: they're licensed works. Not that I'm a fan of canon: I think it's a impediment to some good ideas (and the TOS writers felt that way too).
Even if it was pure fiction Q has the knowledge to know how to populate it with facts. There's absolutely nothing that says the Galaxy-X couldn't have been based on the real deal in the future.
Anyways, anyone who says the Galaxy-X isn't canon is just wrong. Ignore them.
Sources like the Technical Manuals are considered soft-canon.
Particularly BotF is a bad example in some respects as far as games go.
For example in that game the Negh'var was smaller than the Vor'cha and served as an artillery platform like the Nebula.
Only the small and large BoP could cloak all other Klingon ships could not.
Ferengi had the most heavily armed ship in that game, the Marauder which was the counterpart to the Sovereign while the K't'inga outperformed the Ambassador...
Sorry but you're comparing the representation in one game to that in another not with canon.
I agree there.
There is no logical argument that the Federation won't make the Galaxy X.
All we know is that we saw it in a Fantasy, it wasn't explained how or why they built it. So equally there is nothing to say that they won't or didn't. As of this game they did.
The USS Agrippa appeared in BotF -and- DS9 - Dominion Wars. This is a Ship Class that appeared in Canon (AGT) and was never contradicted. Other ships in AGT like the USS Pasteur exist in Canon too, so I would assume that with the exception of it maybe being the Enterprise-F instead of D, with Data as the Captain rather than Sam Lavelle (That was the Captain of the Enterprise-D Dreadnaught, not Admiral Riker. "All Good Things" novelization.)
So, I don't care what anyone says.. to me, the Galaxy-X is and always will be Canon until CBS produces a Film or Television Series set in the 25th Century to contradict AGT's version of the future.
True. A Refit of the Galaxy-X to make it a proper Tier 5 Ship would be nice. Better turning rate for it's phase cannons, same cooldown as Beam Overload 3 for the Spinal Phaser Lance (That's all it is, a phaser BO3!), proper BOff and Console slots. If they did that, I'd buy it for 1200 CP/500 emblems!
That third nacelle was meant to increase it's speed and turning... that's why it was given extra phase cannons to begin with.
1. I only stated the above: that BotF is a bad reference, nothing more nothing less.
2. I did NOT state that it is impossible for this ship to exist, I did not speak to that matter at all.
3. The AGT future IS CONTRADICTEDIN THIS GAME since the Klingon Empire has
not conquered the Romulans 25 years after the end of TNG.
But that was not the issue that I stated, I only pointed out the simple fact that games are
considered non-canon.
As for what you care or don't care about: I don't care if you care or not.
However when you open a thread where you say you consider games a soft-canon source
you should at least accept that people might point out that a game is not canon,
or is that too much for you to endure?
Antonus and his surviving crew members have since been reassigned to the USS Visionary-A, a prototype dreadnought Galaxy-X cruiser designed by Jean-Luc Picard. Its construction was overseen at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards by Admiral William T. Riker.
That is part of my character's bio. If you recall, the only person who remembered Q's anti-time reality (besides Q himself) was Picard. Because Picard is the only person to have experienced this reality, he is familiar with the design of the kick-TRIBBLE Galaxy-X which single-handedly tore through two Klingon Negh'Var vessels (one is destroyed, the other is forced to retreat). In his old age, when he is nothing more than an Ambassador to Vulcan, who is to say that he would not explore something like starship design? The modifications to the original Galaxy are relatively minimal, so it is not like the plans would require an engineering genius like Scotty or LaForge. I put in the part about Admiral Riker overseeing its construction as a nod to the fact that it was he who commanded the Enterprise-D Galaxy-X refit in "All Good Things..."
In STO timeline, Crusher still becomes Captain of the USS Pasteur, so it is logical to assume that other similarities would occur between Q's projection of a future and the events of STO. Perhaps the development of the future in every aspect is slightly polluted by the fact that Picard has this foreknowledge and that is why some events occur in both realities. Lets face it, Picard's notion of the temporal prime directive is fluid at best if you see "A Matter of Time" when he gives the speech about bending the rules occasionally being "the right thing to do."
But it was a fun read.
But you don't become captain of a ship without knowing its inner workings. So the few modifications of the dreadnought wouldn't take that much work to figure out.
Captain's aren't all knowing. They at least know the basics. If anyone could do it then it would be Sisko who has actual experience helping design a ship. Possibly Janeway but she was more of a scientist than an engineer.
They defer to the greater knowledge in their crew. They didn't know EVERYTHING.
Kirk was... I don't know, a badbutt cowboy specialist.
Picard was more of a diplomat and had a great knowledge in history.
Sisko was a mix. He had great technical knowledge and was a great combat leader.
Janeway is the scientist, more comparable to Spock.
The one things the Captains have in common is their ability to command. Much like in real life they'd have specialties and degrees elsewhere too. Much like in real life though a Captain of a Battleship knows the basic functions and could even help probably repair a bit in an emergency unless they specifically come from that background they likely aren't specialize in that.
Picard could certainly lead a team in designing a new ship but it would be more of an administrative role and I doubt he's help considerably towards the Engineeering aspects (he's help, just not nearly as much as other people could like Geordi and the other Engineers who specialize in Engineering).
This alternate future was also portrayed prior to the launch of the Sovereign Class, which is the canon succssor to the Galaxy Class, just as the Galaxy was the successor to the Ambassador.
So because the Galaxy-X's future did not come to pass, there is no reason to believe that it was ever created. In addition to this, the Dominion War comes into play in historical events, which certainly shaped the future of the Galaxy Class, as ships were lost and not replaced.
If Star Trek had come out with another series, post DS9 / VOY, one could postulate that the Galaxy would have assumed the role that the Excelsior played in TNG and DS9, as a background ship, with the Sovereign being more prominent, and a new ship replacing the Sovereign as the Enterprise.
Just as with the Galaxy-X, one can also argue the following would never have existed in canon timeline:
"Rhode Island" Nova Refit
"All Good Things" / "Endgame" future uniforms
Dr. Crusher commanding the USS Pastuer
Geordi LaForge commanding the USS Challenger
Borg Time Travel device being acquired by Starfleet that Chakotay stole to change the fate of Voyager crashing on that frozen rock. Thus, Section 31 having access to it in order to bring us back at the end of the Devidian series.
Q's alternate future doesn't account for the two major event's that DID take place in the timeline of the Galaxy class.
1. The Dominion War
2. Sovereign Class
The Dominion War significantly reduced the number of ALL Starfleet ship classes, including the Galaxy, which according to some Trek writers, there were only a dozen or so Galaxy class ships in existence during the era of TNG, DS9 and Voyager. So based on that, coupled with any losses during the Dominion War, as well as the Sovereign Class being the next "Ship of the Line", it could be postulated that the Galaxy Class would be retired, rather than it's life extended through refit. If the Galaxy Class was in abundance, then a refit would make sense. But if only a handful still existed when the Sovereign class was being launched, then it wouldn't make sense to invest time, resources and materials to refitting such a small number of ships. Instead, you'd leave them as is, and let them be retired through attrition, or when a Sovereign became available for assignment and decommissioning a Galaxy Class.
Let me state, I don't have issue with the ship being in the game. It's fine, and I don't really care. But I don't believe canon arguments apply, since we don't know that it actually ever came to be.
I'm not seeing how any of those are important at all. There's no reason that the Galaxy refit couldn't exist either way for either of those. Had the dominion war not happened in that future or not. Had the sovereign existed or not. Also, since designing ships takes decades I think it's safe to say the Sovereign still existed anyways.
Just because Q fabricated the future doesn't mean anything really. Q created science fiction, essentially. And as we all should know in a Star Trek forum, science fiction can often inspire actual scientific discovery.
And who is to say the Galaxy X wouldn't have actually been invented anyways? There is no way to know for sure. Starfleet does have a history of refitting ships like the Constitution, the Excelsior, so why not a Galaxy Refit?
Actually, the Dominion War was where we started seeing evolution towards the Galaxy X with the addition of the modified nacelles and the phaser lance.
Also we do not have disruptors that feature dua lmodes (pulse or beam as needed) but "cannons" and instead of pulsep hasers... ah you get the drift.
Oh and the akira is equipped with said cannons instead of its heavy phaser arrays...
Canon is not home in sto, so any discussion is kinda moot.
the galaxy x appears in the game.
therefore the galaxy x is confirmed as being in both time lines from a soft canon perspective.
there is no real evidence to say whether the galaxy x was produced in the hard canon time line or not. until a film or show confirms it that will remain up in the air.
there is not much else to it really.
soft canon; yes
hard canon; confirmed in Q reality. unconfirmed in prime reality.
Wait a second....that was not Q's fantasy. It was the Anti-time future.
Picard don't know his ship? Surely, you jest.
Here is the thing though...why bother with a third warp nacelle?
It doesn't make the ship go faster.
It doesn't make the ship more efficient.
It adds mass to a ship that already turns like a massive flying brick.
Because of it's position on the hull, it can't be used to create a stable warp field if you lose one of the outboard nacelles.
I can see the other improvements to the ship being beneficial. The Lance, the Cloak, etc. But the Third Nacelle looks tacked on, and in terms of Trek Science, provided no additional benefit to the ship. Starfleet Engineers would be better off refitting the ship with the lance and the claok, and leaving it at that.