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75 years ago today, the Future began- Mach 1
vetteguy904
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in Ten Forward
October 14, 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and began Man's steps to the stars.
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Then we broke it.
It's never been the same since...
Glennis doesn't look all that glamorous to me. A bit archaic even. If the rest of the class looks just like her, I think we can do without it.
[3/25 10:41][Combat (Self)]Your Haymaker deals 26187 (10692) Physical Damage(Critical) to Orinoco.
The draw of the Yeager-class is that it is a bit out of the usual design envelope but still looks Trek, it was specifically built for the Dominion war which was probably the most popular arc in Trek, and for history buffs it channels the realworld WWII 'kitbash' ships started as civilian models but converted to warships partway through their construction.
The latter goes a long way to pointing out just how desperate the Federation's situation was during the early-to-mid parts of that war, shows how lax they had gotten with fleet strengths, and highlights the spirit, ingenuity, and resilience of the Federation, and that subtle reference to the WWII situation adds depth to the conflict in DS9.
And before the inevitable "its a ridiculous out of scale mashup!" thing come up, there were no 'scale errors' because the secondary hull was not a 'marquis raider', it was that freighter that used the same shooting model in a one or two second shot at the end of a communication in one of the episodes.
Star Trek used expensive physical models for a long time, and so very often reused those models with slight detail changes (or sometimes not so slight) to represent a lot of similar-looking but different ships. Just look at the Bird of Prey line of ships, everything from a tiny scout with a crew of twelve up to a battlecruiser that was a serious threat to Galaxy class and D'Deridex-class ships.
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A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
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