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TOS ship classificationDave's TOS ship classification chart

Hi, folks!

Those who know their TOS and know it well must also know that the Enterprise was labelled as "Starship class" on her original dedication plaque, although everybody knows that she's a proud member of the Constitution class.
I was informed many times that this is due to ships being classified by purpose in those times and what we know as "class" by now meant "subclass" back then. I tried to use my naval knowledge and fantasy to come up with a reasonable TOS classification system. Happy Trekking!

Vessel classes of Starfleet in descending order, based upon overall capacity status

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A Cat ship, a Lizard ship and a Human ship.



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~SeeJay530 Jun 9, 2010
Hehehehe, will have to get my hub to share some pics of Kzinti ships with you, then you'll be able to update this. I do like your design for the lizard men (kobolds?) ship though. Are they all to scale and if so why do the Kzinti in your universe field just escort cruisers and not dreadnaughts like the Tigress (nicknamed the "big cats").
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*davemetlesits Jun 9, 2010
The Kzinti designs were based upon a Kzin ship seen in TAS: The Slaver Weapon. My version of the Tzenkethi are equivalent of Harry Turtledove's The Race.
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~gopotter Jun 9, 2010  Student Writer
Units Participated and lost is kind of amusing...
As is the Lizard's ship name...
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*davemetlesits Jun 9, 2010
If you have read Harry Turtledove's WorldWar series, you know why I have chosen the name.
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!Trance-Master Jun 7, 2010
Dave, whatever the others say - Impressive artwork, near as damnit to photo realism :-)

Any chance of doing orthos of the three types (I'd STILL like to do some Datasheets on the types)????
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*davemetlesits Jun 8, 2010
I'll do a datasheet of the TMP Polaris like the one I did with the TOS one.
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!Trance-Master Jun 8, 2010
:-) Mmmmm, I'll look forward to that :-)
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~MultiFan-01 Jun 7, 2010
OK, from the side the Tzenkethi ship makes a little more sense. Not so much a flying saucer with bite taken out of it; but more of a wing-y almond with an improvised indent and egg shaped bussard collector for a ship that was never meant to have warp drive. Fascinating :D
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*davemetlesits Jun 8, 2010
Thank you very much!

I call her a teardrop shape, according to my quickly-invented backstory, the lines were based upon a desert-dvelling bug native to Tzenketh.
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~MultiFan-01 Jun 8, 2010
"A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for lousy can of RAID."

"Quite frankly I find the idea of a bug that thinks OFFENSIVE."

So now we get to help the lizard men and their bug-ships; so we've got that going for us, which is nice.

:D
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