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So is this what happens when /tv/ refugees show up?
Angel Foster
Imagine working your ass off in Starfleet for years. being the best first officer that you can be and being beloved by your Captain and crew. Then one day Starfleet announces your promotion to Captain and present you with that ship. A first generation Constallation. The carpet's been stomped flat from decades of use, the foam in the bridge seats has long ago rotted away leaving a barely solid mush with a seat cover that has had its color worn off from the ass of the previous Captain. Your new engineer reports that the warp core is just an incomprehensible mess of patch fixes and strange home made experimental upgrades and the ship's Doctor has informed you that the most advanced piece of sickbay equipment on bored was last seen in a museum.
Wat do?
Isaac Rogers
Basically, yeah.
Christian Wilson
Kill myself because I couldn't even land a Miranda
Jaxson Gray
Accept it. Everyone's first ride is a clunker. Happens. Also, find out if the Chief Engineer is any good and if he is, get him working his ass off ASAP to fix her up into something halfway decent. Engineers in Starfleet are basically magicians after all.
James Moore
>Yeager >17 Best votes >18 Worst votes
Easton Ross
>Constellation >4 Best Votes >20 Worst votes
Jordan Richardson
Time for a refit. Starfleet ain't gonna leave an exploratory vessel that far behind the curve. With replicators it won't even take that long to replace most of the equipment.
Jayden Walker
The great thing about inheriting a beat up piece of shit is that you can fix it, refurbish it, and rebuild it based on what you want. It'll take a lot of work but when you're done it will truly be your ship and not just a generic ship that you happen to command. Just navigate the great river and the material continuum will provide.
Dylan Garcia
What's with all the non star trek posts of late?
That explains it.
Henry Perez
How would the phasers compare on at TOS ship to a TNG ship? Non UFP of course.
Bentley Taylor
Non-UFP phaser rankings? We don't really have coherent data to explore the question with. Phaser technology varies in potency based on who it is that made it. We have more data about Federation phasers, obviously.
Zachary Hughes
So long as we got one good replicator and enough energy and matter we're good to go. Once repairs are made and everything is brought up to standards there are 2 paths that can be taken. Path the first is the respectable career officer; do your time in the fleet, get a better ship in a few years and hand this old heap over to the next newb, spend a life time on the edge of the map and if you survive get a golden handshake and a nice beach front apartment on some distant colony world, die and be forgotten in a decade.
The other path;
>Cackle loudly and manically whilst spinning around in the captain's chair >Order the Jolly Rodger painted across the saucer section and the Bussard Collectors hammered out into the shape of grinning skulls >Disable some Nausicaan pirate vessels, kill the survivors and take their weapons and cargo and anything else of value >Set course for the nearest free port >Refit the ship with the stolen weapons with manual aim >Replace as much of the ship as possible with simpler but more robust (harder to infiltrate) hardware >Rename the ship Maxwell's Maxim >Declare self a Privateer and citizen of No Man's Space >Operate out of the privateer dockyards of Tortuga 7 >Take on new crew as the old crew retire on mountains of their share of the loot >Take no loot for yourself, for you the prize is freedom >Die a century later surrounded by a legion of bastard children and loyal crew and be remembered for generations to come.
The thing is, I doubt Starfleet is just going to force you to take that beater out into space. You'll like get some spacedock time, and a lot of what's wrong can be fixed. Industrial replicators are one hell of a tech, and there's no conceivable reason not to upgrade the ship as far as Starfleet will allow.
Which includes fixing the chairs. Once all that is done, she's a serviceable ship. Not my personal favorite, but handle her with distinction and maybe I'll eventually get something more in line with my sensibilities.
Joseph Ross
Replace the Warp EVERYTHING with a distributed system comprised of reliable and readily available spare parts: two Excelsior nacelles instead of four TMP-era units, and a pair of Miranda warp cores (one in each of the aftmost shuttlebays), freeing up main engineering to be converted to a massive manufacturing complex that a mobile starbase would require...
Jacob Lewis
All this talk of ugly, worthless ships and nobody has thought to bring up this big heaping slug of nothing.
Nolan Jackson
Fuck you man, the D'Kora is beautiful.
Dominic Foster
It looks like somebody took 2 seperate designs, glued them together and then spray-painted them shit brown.
Michael Nelson
was meant for
Dominic Lewis
It's still leagues better than these from ENT, since they're just reuses of the dorsal half of a warbird model.
Novafag here on suicide watch. Why does nobody care for comfy and cute?
Ryan Taylor
There must be something in the water that has afflicted them with SHIT TASTE.
Nova is best ship. It's like an up to date Pioneer
Daniel Barnes
Take heart, Novafriends. Comfiest ship shall always be Nova.
Aiden Adams
I- I thought I was the only one.
Let us do science. Comfy science.
Asher Perry
I didn't vote for the Nova because it's a "best" ship contest, which is a loaded statement from the get-go, since depending on how we define best, the answer will change.
But I agree. The Nova is the comfiest ship, and will always be best in that category.
Tyler Williams
If the past thread was any indication, the Nova is the least comfy ship for any non-senior officer/crewman. That is, unless you're into hot-bunking and/or sharing a space with up to 6 others.
David White
Let me guess, you voted based on pew pew pew or something irreverent
Isaiah Reyes
Nova did pretty well, it got barely any worst votes and is in the top ten best ships... At joint 10th place...
Andrew Lee
Does it matter? Best is always going to be a matter of opinion or taste. But to answer your question, no I didn't. Because if I had, I would have voted for either the Sovereign or the Defiant in that case.
Christopher Hernandez
We went over this, Nova class is for lovers.
Joseph Green
>Does it matter? I would of said no, but you seem pretty hung up on the philosophical consequences of using the term "best"
I think everyone else just voted for the ones that mean more to them. nobody else treated it like the government is screwing you over again
Christopher Carter
>would of
C'mon. You can bait harder than that.
Adrian Sanchez
@55521424 If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything
Lucas Adams
So what did you vote based on?
Nolan Powell
The ones I like best.
Austin Anderson
Worst to 2nd-worst ship coming through
Austin Peterson
like everyone else did? So nothing was loaded? Geez because that was hard...
Carter Nelson
Every time I see that ugly thing I think it's a stylised file clip
Ryan Morgan
Well, it's not like it was "best science ship" or "comfiest ship" poll. It's just a straight up popularity contest.
Gabriel Torres
>It's just a straight up popularity contest. Exactly. There was no mystery to it bud
Charles Flores
I never said there was, pal. Only that "best" depends on the person or the interpretation.
Colton Taylor
Do you honestly think there was even one poor sucker that interpreted it as anything but a popularity contest? I don't think that retard exists.
Cameron Garcia
You seem real butthurt I didn't vote for the nova. You should get that checked.
David Turner
But I didn't vote for Nova either so...? What? You've been a troll the entire time and the emo shit was just bait?
I'll give your angsty shit a 6/10 since it had me replying in confusion for so long. But fine. I guess I'll let you win your internet game...
Juan Roberts
It has joint last place for amount of worst votes. It did fucking fine. I'm more surprised there's five plebs who voted the Miranda as worst. That' just contrarianism for the sake of it
Carson Hernandez
The nacelles are too long. I don't think it's bad but I don't think it's great.
Ian Ward
If the nacelles weren't that long it'd look like it would tip over. Get you garbage opinions out of here
Jackson Ross
See I'm looking at the Nova Deck Plans and there are: 3 beds on Deck 1 4 beds on Deck 2 6 beds on Deck 3 22 beds on Deck 4 4 beds on Deck 6 For a total of of 39 beds. If we assume that all of the beds on decks 1-3 are reserved for officers, we can easily state the case that the rest of the crew quarters are bunks, bringing us up to 55 beds. We have evidence that this was to be expected for crew on a non-luxury-liner class Starship, as Voyagers enlistees were made to bunk 4 to a room (we see enlistees bunked up in "Good Shepherd). make some of those officer beds into bunks or the obviously preferable option of a cohabiting couple and you're into the mid 60's no problem. Hell, if all but the Captain, XO and section heads were bunks, you'd have roughly 74-78 beds. You could, perhaps add another number of bunks into those rooms, or at least a few of them, to reach the stated 78 person crew compliment. Or, perhaps the state compliment is a maximum rather than the norm. You could fit extra bunks in if you needed to but most missons don't require that, or some such.
aaaaaad I've spent all this time compiling evidence that we've moved right back onto ship-shitposting. So... still gonna post this, because that's 10 minutes of my life I'm not getting back either way.
Carson Stewart
>or the obviously preferable option of a cohabiting couple We established a few threads ago that Deltans and Betazoids work with computer programs to assign temporary marriages to each couple on the ship.
Connor Perry
It's been five days but I'mma doin' it.
Tyler Butler
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Christopher Morris
So basically immediately I see why they didn't want to use this teleplay.
Nathan Rodriguez
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Justin Watson
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Owen Walker
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Aaron Collins
A drug dealer *and* a murderer, oh my.
Tyler Gonzalez
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Lincoln Edwards
Pretty sure the comically large laser blaster is an actual TOS prop.
Elijah Flores
The artist used only paints and no digital effects. The transporter stream was made by dipping an electric toothbrush in white acrylic and whirring it above the canvas.
Jack Lewis
I've got stuff to do so I may only be storytiming the first issue.
Asher Foster
Truly it was, the City on the Edge of Forever.
James Cruz
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Brandon Moore
I get kind of a Lovecraft vibe from this planet.
Jaxson Hughes
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Levi Mitchell
It's necessary for the story but I think the away team got a bit sidetracked with these guys.
Thomas Butler
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Tyler Ward
More like smug dealer amirite.
Andrew Myers
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Charles Nelson
I think this was before Vulcans were established to have super strength, or the guy'd be out cold.
Gabriel Lee
Dinner, board games, poker (pending), last page. I'd appreciate someone continuing but I will later if no one else does.
Cameron Sanders
Nah fuck it.
Alexander Phillips
Gimme a minute I'm separating issues into folders to make this easier for me.
Lincoln Kelly
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Anthony Price
Oh fugg it renamed the files when I moved them.
Blake Bell
Firefly mirror universe crossover.
Jackson Moore
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Blake Hill
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Michael Allen
Besieged transporter rooms needs to happen more often.
Gabriel Bailey
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Gabriel Long
The artist was going for a stolid expression but Rand looked more constipated. Oh well, at least she got to do something other than be raped by idKirk, or get raped by Charlie X, or get raped by a PSI-2000 virus'd Sulu.
Connor Cooper
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Anthony Howard
Harlan Ellison writes such good dialogue.
Cooper Morgan
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Isaac Sanchez
Fuckin' love rainbows.
Isaiah Campbell
Oh fugg, them in the rainbow? Look up the Motion Picture poster.
Jonathan Lewis
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Jose Clark
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Evan Reyes
Spock is somewhat less stoic in this than in the series.
Juan Baker
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Chase White
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Jordan Phillips
I knew a girl in middle school surnamed Tipton. You can guess some of the remarks made.
