That could be an Ambassador-class. Those suckers are hard to kill. And it does bear more than a passing similarity to the Galaxy if it's zipping by while you're busy doing something else.
Yeah, there's too little similarity to previous designs, especially the Odyssey, for these to be the new standard in Starfleet. At best, you have broad outline similarities (that escort is kinda the same shape as a Defiant, etc.), but no real evolution of detail. That Guardian-class looks like a Starfleet ship, since it's…
I can guarantee that Tier 6 ships aren't out yet. Something like that would have caused a much greater uproar than one thread. Are you sure you're not just seeing the Daeinos? It's got a broadly similar silhouette to the new warbird.
Romulan? Plasma. Nukara? Tetryon. Dyson? Polaron. They may not be 100% identical, but they do the same base damage type and have very similar (if not identical) beam VFX for people who care about that.
I saw a comment on Reddit that, I think, explains these new ship designs quite nicely: "They're not Starfleet ships; they're Section 31 ships." These ships have all been designed with the intelligence systems at the forefront. To me, that seems like Section 31's aesthetic. Being sent to the other end of known space in a…
I'm also having the "Login failed for an unknown reason" error. I can login through the launcher just fine, the client launches just fine, and it goes through the login process to "Retrieving list of characters" before it hangs for roughly a minute before returning the unknown reason error message and kicks me back to the…