Captain_Ender

You forgot the best one

Captain Freeman: Warp me!

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I think looking at the ships’ different roles may answer that question. The Miranda-class is a backline support and science platform, only called to the front during extreme circumstances (Wolf-359, Dominion War). They can be efficient at simple taskings like specific missions or supply runs. Like its successor, the California-class, they’re also the mass produced, easy to build/repair workhorse type, so a simple, tested design just works over a longer life time.

Whereas the Constitution-class is a much larger, more complex, and line serving Heavy Cruiser. Presumably being on the frontline of exploration and military intervention, they have a higher need for the bleeding edge tech The Federation can field, especially with the fleet flagship USS Enterprise. Its unique hardware would also make it harder to repair and maintain which probably affected the lifespan of the class as a whole.

Like others said, it’s most likely more sensible to do a full redesign whenever a new frontline or special class is called for instead of relying on retrofitting to keep up with enemy tech advances. Especially with core components like warp core upgrades, computing types (ie Galaxy-class moving to isolinear), or completely new tech like the Intrepid-class’ bio-neural circuitry. That could maybe answer the shorter lifespan only lasting 1-2 retrofits before class charge (ie NCC-1701-A/B to the NCC-1701-C to the NCC-1701-D/E)

“Is my shirt asymmetrical enough?”

Naw most VFR unguided airstrips like this don’t have anything in the way of landing assistance. The idea being that they’d never fly at night time and divert to a nearby IFR airport if there’s sudden weather. Like literal fair weather pilots.

Ayyy fellow birthday week friend

And a union man, with a smoking hot wife. A war hero who then got assigned the safest job in the fleet before becoming the highest ranking NCO of an alien tech outpost. And don’t forget those sexy Irish pipes.

We should all be so lucky to be Senior Chief Miles O’Brien.

There’s a vid on the steam community, guy got it to work installed on the SteamDeck mSD. Required a bunch of workarounds but it got like 30 fps.

Modders already on top of optimization. DLCC 2.0 mod already out there. Runs 40-50 fps 4K/ultra on my system unmodded. 3080ti, 12900k, 128GB DDR5, m2.

I feel like Lower Decks has the answer to these problems. Like at some point Starfleet had a meeting and was like “ok we really need a fleet of ships that just answer the boring shit”

Space squids fucking near DS7? Just California-class about it.

Anthony Bourdain: open the walk-in and you’ll see the line cook who’s about to handle your rokeg blood pie doing lines of spice off the Andorian fryguy’s stiff blue dick “as a joke”. Still you can’t find a better crew outside of Qo’noS, just don’t go in the kitchen.

Dominion: comes

Starfleet: lol jk we still use blackops wet teams

Riker boldy coming and going. The OG Starfleet fuckboi. Kirk set the tone, Will dialed it to 11.

Make the Federation Great Again lmao what a dunce. Literally been addressing trans rights since the early 90s.

Literally the Dyson Sphere episode haha

Somewhere in the bottom of a snowy canyon I reckon

Andorian Blue > Romulan Ale

She was also married to the OG himself, Gene Roddenberry.

Yeah it’s Paris and it’s not even close. He was the first test pilot to break the trans-warp barrier. Smashin hot Klingon ass, and banged his captain when they were lizards. Mans a fuckin Starfleet legend.

I’d say Lt Mayweather as runner up. Dude was a freighter pilot and they basically tossed him in our very first combat spaceship that can hop around the galaxy. And was like “I dunno figure it out as we go” lmao.

Ortegas and Paris are definitely the most pilot like pilots character wise though. Both of them have fighter pilot personalities, excited to get into the action and do wild shit.

The Hero of Twinks