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From what I can remember from the episode of TNG where the enterprise is sent to look for Commander Rikers first starship posting the Pegasus the Federation was not allowed to research and develop cloaking technology without violating the treaty with the Romulans... now that the treaty is no longer and the Federation and the Romulans are now in all out war why has the federation not developed their own cloaks?
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I'll stick to my Intrepid retrofit, though, because that's my favorite ship design (and I'm a huge Voyager fanboi, so I guess that factors into it, as well.
*(Galaxy X and Defiant retrofit)
First off Starfleet simply isn't as good at making cloaking technology. Both the Klingons and Romulans excel much more at this tech. Romulan and Klingon ships were designed with Cloak in mind while Starfleet ships were not.
Using that logic we might assume that for tech and design reasons Starfleet ships simply aren't as effective at cloaking.
In the events of Nemesis the Romulans developed a perfect cloak which could surpass all defenses. This led the Federation to greatly increase funding towards anti-cloaking technology.
Eventually a breakthrough was reached that nullified this cloaking technology and made normal cloaking much less effective.
Both the remaining Romulans and Klingons tried to counter this however with limited success. They succeeded in developing cloak that was still plausible though no longer as tough to find (like in STO).
Starfleet at this point wants to put cloak on their ships but it's controversial politically from within the Federation and from outside of it. Many in the Federation don't want to be cloaking around "like pirates" and want to keep the Federation imagine clean. Many factions outside the Federation go anywhere from expressing concern to discontinuing diplomatic relations.
The talk of cloak in Starfleet ships certainly didn't help Klingon/Federation relations...
When the decision was made to start putting cloak on ships they found that their same counter measures developed to counter other "perfect cloaks" like on the Scimitar coupled with the fact that Starfleet ships weren't designed to use Cloaks and were therefore slightly less effective at them made the cloaked Starfleet ships a waste of resources.
This slowed down cloaking progression for Starfleet significantly. However eventually they would develop technological upgrades much like the Romulans and Klingons did to allow it to be possible.
Putting these new cloaks on each ship was cost prohibitive however due to the Cardassian and Romulan aid. It would require a huge amount of resources to refit current ships with the new cloaking technology.
That said they began slow. Under the guidance of Miles O'Brien they developed a cheaper way to implant the technology on the existing Defiant-class designs up to the standards of the Klingon and Romulan cloak.
Their next project would be on the newer Dreadnaught Galaxy refits.
Facing success it's still a ways to go before special refit designs could be put on more ships. It takes time and resources to make the Starfleet ships which are most of the time not designed for cloak and often too old. In fact there is talk of abandoning already made models and just making all or most future Starfleet designs cloak ready to avoid huge refit costs.
So the future of Starfleet would seem to involve cloak.
It's ok its not like the Federation can take on a fleet of Scimitars
indeed Scimitars have some power but what about the borg or 8472 or [Q]
as for the fed's:
Temporal Research Facility
Federation ships open fire on Borg vessels caught in a temporal stasis field
Nice little temp video
Manheim Temporal Research Facility
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Corbomite Reflector 2
They have, The new tier Defiant that comes with 1.2 has one
I think the first episode with cloaking Vor'cha Warships was the DS9 Episode "Way of the Warrior" so i guess it's canon.
(The Ships of the Klingon Fleet cloaked and decloaked to mask the true strength of the fleet)
Awesome!
The Feds suck at cloaks??
HA!
They made not only a cloak but a device phasing ships out of reality so it can fly through matter!
That´s miles above any gorram cloak.
Yes, Cryptic should work on giving us a proper storyline on the cloaking issue already.
Now that they are TWO fracking ships with it!
that was galrons flag task force not a standard klingon fleet .
If memory serves me it wasn't cloaked as merely camoflagued by holographic images.
Which is a form of cloak