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>Sexcelsior Edition?

>Conqueror

*sigh* Why does nobody name their ship the Judy Stennis, wife of the senator who agreed to appropriate the funds to build your expensive fucking ship in the first place.

Because we're talking about the Terran Empire, not a trust fund dinner in Vermont.

Terran Empire still has senators and whatnot bigwigs who like things named after them, their home states/planets or other boring things.

For ship names you only need to look at the Royal Navy.

Brits got this shit down age ago, by virtue of having to name hundreds upon hundreds of ships.
Some choice examples:

Indomitable. Onslaught. Indefatigable. Warspite. Venturous. Heliotrope. Pheasant. Vivacious. Perseverance. Monkey. Audacity. Chub. Bonaventure. Diligence. Enterprise. Duff. Resolute. Leviathan.

So just three-syllable adjectives and proper names then.

The French are no slouches either.
Redoutable
Terrible
Glorieuse
Inflexible
Capricieuse

I think the important thing is to pick a country with a strong Naval tradition.

So no German names.

Funnily enough, i have seen couple of ships named Bismarck.

well, if you don't mind the casual insinuation of Nazi connections, Bismark, Tirpitz, Sharnhorst, Gneiseau and Prinz Eugen are all decent names.

I could get onboard with the FASA designs being fed ships produced by less prominent member worlds.

The Charger is everyone's shipfu. And the Andor is everyone's "Torpedo every fucking thing ever" ship.

I wanted to name an Ambassador-class starship from a fanfic my college buddy and I were writing after one of the Goodyear blimps: the Stars and Stripes.

Leaving out the "any German name is a Nazi-connotation" meme, just go a bit further back. WW1, Napoleonic and 7 Year's War Prussian names are great.

Blücher
Möllendorf
Graf von Gessler
Derfflinger
Moltke
Kaiser
von Hipper
Kaiser
König
Markgraf
Manteuffel
Friederike Krüger - woman who served in the Prussian Napoleonic Army; people knew she was a she, and she got promoted and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery in combat anyway.

Or if your tastes lean more towards science/exploration:

Förster - poet
Encke - Astronomer
Chamisso - poet and botanist
Steinmetz - Cartographer
Franz Lieber - THAT Franz Lieber
Langenbeck - doctor, developed reasonable amputations and the modern "residency" system for doctor training
Engels - father of communism along with Marx. Perfect for TNG-era, right?
Prinz Muskau - explorer and artist
Matthaeus von Wolf - doctor of medicine, astronomy, and botany (simultaneously)

For completeness sake: my own ship was named USS Seydlitz for pretty much my entire playthrough of STO.

Also if you want to go with some Russian names, Aurora is a pretty well known ship as well as Potemkin.
Also here's some WW1 and pre WW1 ships for you guys.

>Tzars
Imperator Aleksandr III
Imperator Nikolai I
Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya
Imperatritsa Mariya

>Saints
Evstafi
Ioann Zlatoust

>Battles
Borodino
Poltava
Sevastopol
Gangut
Petropavlovsk

>Words in Russian
Oryol = Eagle
Slava = Glory

>Blücher

>Engels - father of communism along with Marx. Perfect for TNG-era, right?

I keked

I don't get it. Even checked the wiki for Gebhard Blucher. What's the joke here?

Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein.

Is there a determined timeline of events for the occupation of Bajor? Mostly we hear about the last 2 decades, what led up to that point?

Post your unique ship names and the things that inspired them.

USS Khanda here.

Best ship in the fleet.

Made a federation scientist named Farnsworth and all his ships were named after mad scientists.

meet the USS Mengele.

Should be fairly obvious.

Just stopping by to say thank you to whoever name dropped Starfleet Museum last thread, awesome design and fluff. That should have been the pre-tos series, not ENT.

Also, thinking of getting involved in STO, but I'm wondering how "comfy" the game can be. Actual systems to explore, things to survey, etc.?

USS Ben Sisko's Motherfucking Pimp Hand

Depends what you define as comfy. It's easy and simple, for the most part. People go on and on about power creep, but that only matters to the top 10-20% of players. But on the other hand, In the Grim and Dark Future of 2409, There Is Only War.

Well you can beam down on Andoria (just snowy fields in a canyon), Vulcan (Imagine Mars but with Vulcan huts and temples and lots of Vulcans everywhere).
As well as some other worlds.
Most "exploration" you'll get is probably going to be from New Romulus.
There are some planets that have some sorta patrol mission on them, which are mostly just space encounters where you help some folks by either scanning stuff or by blasting stuff.

In space you can encounter at random either abandoned ships, unknown nebulas or rogue comets, but scanning those just gives you R&D (crafting) materials.

USS Calamitous Intent

USS We Surrender

So an oxymoron for U.S.S. France?

>Warhead

So the rest of the ship is a delivery mechanism for its ship registry? Is its very name considered the primary weapon?

youtube.com/watch?v=LPJSqB9mlAc

The entire ship is a complicated delivery system for the righteous fist of Benjamin Sisko.

>In space you can encounter at random either abandoned ships, unknown nebulas or rogue comets, but scanning those just gives you R&D (crafting) materials.

This is what I'm looking for. Will my play experience be heavily changed depending on the class I roll with?

Well, on some missions there are some things you can do if you are certain kind of captain, also apparently there are very few dialogue changes depending on your characters race, at least on feddie side.
Also i think there is one time you can use Vulcan nerve pinch on a NPC, but that's a one time thing only.

So not much at all. So it comes down to ship availability then.

I just want to get that feeling of cruising through the cosmos playing space police but more on the roadkill side of things. Fly, patrol, scan, etc.

There are also some random battles going on in space, you just have to fly to them and then enter them.
Also red alerts some times where it's either Temporal marauders a'la Nakuhl, Borg trying to invade or the Tholians blasting Borg in a nebula and you just have to go and murder some Tholians because you are the only one with a permit for Borg hunting.

You aren't restricted to ships by career either. You can play a Tactical captain, and fly a cruiser. You can make an Engineer, and fly a science vessel, and you can fly an escort as a Science captain.

However, Tactical does have the edge on raw DPS. Engineers have tanky abilities that help keep more rickety ships like escorts alive, and Science captains have debuffs which help keep them somewhat competitive.

I prefer ships that are at least somewhat sciency because I like grouping enemies up with gravity wells and FAWing them to death.

They've tried adding and subtracting nacelles. They've tried adding more saucer sections.

Are there any designs that try adding more cylinders?

>Garth became a legend in his own time and went mad.
>Kirk became a legend in his own time and got fat.
>Sisko became a god in his own time.

Righteous fist indeed.

Proxima, one of the ships from nuTrek, and one of the ships from Axanar.

It is relatively rare, which is too bad since you would have all that extra shuttle capacity and power.

My main has relentlessly borrowed from planets in David Weber's Honorverse. Her Hestia-class is the USS Erewhon. She drove four iterations of the USS Manticore. Her upgraded Andorian escort is the USS Sphinx. Other commissioned ships that she's never really flown include the USS Gryphon and USS Anderman.

(They don't look too original because the Star Kingdom of Manticore, for those who haven't read, obviously went with mythological beasts for its planetary naming scheme.)

seems easier to just have bigger tubes.

damn, baby got back

The nose pod (and its deflector dish, meaning if you fire it you can't go to warp) are a last ditch weapon. It's a spare photon torpedo magazine with 6 shots with a one shot impulse engine.

The Radar Love
youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY

also, the Ballroom Blitz
youtube.com/watch?v=VzpWJx3I2DY

are just two of my ships, I usually name them after classic rock.

How about even more booty?

>even more booty
>combat container
>actual front-line combat arena

No, sorry, too much booty. I am mere mortal.

You're refusing a posting to the Mark Key Fleet, First Strike Division? When we push those Spoonheads off of RIGHTFUL FEDERATION CLAY, that will be remembered. I bet you'd take a posting like pic related, wouldn't you?

t. SPACE ADMIRAL Eddington.

That things looks like ass. And not a nice ass, either.

That battle canister better be either a giant cannon or just shits torpedoes as fast as they can fire for a hours at a go

The ones that seem random are. Usually just whatever pops into my head at some point. But there are a few themes there:
>yryr characters (running out of girls)
>alien animu girls
>just general ayy-related stuff
>Moretsu Pirates ships
>general pirate stuff
>general slut/sex stuff
>stuff related to money, bragging about it

>just started playing this game

Is there something you have to do to get your bridge officers to display like that? Or does it just happen at a certain rank?

Song titles

>Dyskrasia
>Zer0space
>Invisible Plan
>Taxicab Messiah
>Trickster Process
>Placebo
>God in Fire
>Serene Dream

Assign them to your away team.

Thanks, senpai

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So I'm not overly familiar with Star Trek but my group recently got the idea to run a Star Trek campaign and I got the idea to play a post DS9 Cardassian.

The question is how do I do play it? Post nazi German struggling with democratic values?

>that saurian in the bottom center

>Plays STO
>Made disgusting alien waifu to replace a glitched character
>Hasn't seen anything ST related besides nuTrek and first episode of TNG
>Can't come up with ship names to save his life
Am I doing everything wrong?

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>Hasn't seen anything ST related besides nuTrek and first episode of TNG

I was in a similar when I started playing,

>had only seen TOS
>watched the first season of TNG
>it was shit
>every trekkie I knew insisted there were no bad seasons of TNG
>I wound up judging all of TNG by the first season because of this

I missed out on so much, for so long

Yeah thankfully I've been told to skip season 1 entirely except for season 1 but I'm a lazy douchebag who can't be assed to pry his grubby dorito covered hands from his computer to go and watch TV so I haven't watched the rest yet. What exactly makes the first season so shitty anyways given that you've actually seen it?

>to skip season 1 entirely except for season 1
* a few other episodes

Two major problems, and a slew of minor problems

1) The acting is incredibly awkward and wooden, no one was comfortable in their roles, several of the actors hated each other

and 2) Gene Roddenberry was heavily involved in the first season, and he was simply not a very good writer. He only knew how to write preachy pulp, when his influence waned on the show, and the veteran writers under him took control is when the show started to get good

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Thats a Kobali

>>had only seen TOS
I like you.

Breh, you seriously need to take the BB gun away from your fucking crew. All those eye patches...

That's one option. Cardassians are just normal folks. You could also play a very damaged civilian just trying to make the memories go away. Depends on what the game is going to be I guess.

So for those playing STO, anyone acquire one of the Prime Timeline TOS Connies?

If you have, I am envious.

Who hated who?

Not that user, but I remember reading on Memory Alpha about how there was a lot of hard feelings between Geordi and Worf and Patrick Stewart after he said something racist about black people.

Levar Burton hated Wil Wheton

That was all I knew

Based Stewart

I see Levar is a good judge of character.

Stewart made a racis joke because he's a brit and figured they could handle the bants, but they couldn't. He appologized, and everyone was happy again.
Actually, the main actors really liked each other. They were always making jokes and screwing around on-set, to the point where it was disruptive sometimes. There was some tension between some of the producers and the actors early on, especially Maurice Hurley and the actresses. He's actually why McFadden left for a season - he apparently was propositioning her and generally harrassing the actresses, so she quit, and didn't come back until he was fired after the second season.
No, the real tension was in the writers' room. Not only was Hurley causing trouble there, but Gene was being especially imperious and unreasonable. Things got slightly better in S2, when Gene was too out of it to really interfere on a day-to-day basis, but things weren't great until, again, Hurley was fired and Gene was gone for good. (There was a writer's strike in there too, which didn't help the quality of the show.) Also, Ron Moore came in then, and he quickly became one of the top writers; he was a writer's writer, so things brightened up significantly. Things got kinda dour again in S7, when most of the good people left either to DS9, VOY, or Generations, which is why they ran out of ideas and things went downhill.

I usually name them after monsters.

My first ship was Morag. My current ship is Manticore.

That looks like NODs first foray into space fightan, with the chrome, red retros, and tiberium crystals.

That's just the Aegis Shield and Deflector for the blue effects, with the Borg Console for the green.

How do you like my blinged up ship?

It still looks like the USS Technology Of Peace.

Considering that at one time I could drop the shields of a Cube in a single pass on a facing because of Cannon Rapid Fire III and the Borg AP Heavy Cannons? It most assuredly is.

>dropping them
>not just killing one outright

You have a long way to go into 'lol op' builds, my friend.

I know, it's depressing. But I could never get the right gear, and finishing the Borg dungeons were nigh impossible with my skill set up.

>right gear
It doesn't require 'right gear', all it requires is a relatively derp-free build and basic non-fleet mark XIIs in most slots, and a working knowledge of how all this shit interacts.

Just get the Romulan trololo plasma torpedoes and 3 purple projectile doffs. Share the neverending stream of JOY with the universe.

Do you know how old that screencap is? That's from when the Maelstrom skin for the Patrol Escort first came out, maybe 5 months after launch. Mk XII wasn't even a twinkle in Cryptic's eye at that point. When builds still had you retrain based on what energy weapon you got.

This is exactly my build. All the goddamn plasma, it just isn't funny anymore when you see 20 of those giant glowing orbs slam into the side of something.