There's nothing stock about it. That ship was designed by Terradhyne. It's his FASA Durret-class destroyer. I scaled the cargo part down, how much smaller did you want it ?
Tough crowd. LOL.
Two things.
1. Regarding the Galaxy or even Nebula Class saucer/nacelle on the TNG version; why not have a galaxyor nebula class saucer? After the Dominion war their might have been a surplus of Galaxy parts new and or salvaged from vessels that could not have been sufficiently repaired as Galaxy or even Nebula classes. Mind you I am not advocating a wide scale mass production of this but a handful of these cobbleled together from salvagable parts works for me. Now, by the time that Voyager ends, Starfleet is moving towards more arrow shaped saucers any way; Intrepid, Nova, Prometheus and even dauntless class designs; I'd even throw in the Achilles class for good measure. I'm not a big TNG fan mind you but I can live with MPs TNG kitbash.
2. The FASA Durette DD by Terradyhne! Wow, what an unexpected and pleasant surprise. Excellent idea MP.
Thank you for sharing these with us.
KF
A galaxy saucer is designed to house how many people? How much material in it could be dismantled and recycled at the shipyards and used to build the next generation? the hull would likely contain sensitive technologies even if stripped. a friegter only needs a small crew. there is no reason for them to seek a galaxy hull. likely a cruise line might want one but that is another story.
The way i figure decommisioned hulls would end up in civilian hands is first if the ship is operational it goes into mothballs for a good long time then is sold intact or stripped down when it is no longer viable even as a reserve ship. a galaxy is just too new to end up that way. too big to be useful that way. likely to be a military secret or contain forbidden technology. too expensive to just let go; it might be broken down to be used in the new ships.
Who says civilians would get a Galaxy/Ambassador/Nebula freighter like this anyway?
I didn't that's for sure.
One of the lessens Starfleet would have learned from the Dominion war would have been in the logistical operations area. Amatuers think tactics, professional soldiers/sailors think logistics. If you don't have the necessary equipment, sufficient troops and supporting supplies to conduct the battle you are doomed to failure in a protracted engagement.
Bad writing aside, in many DS9 episodes the Federation and especially the Klingons were very rarely ever fully supplied fast enough and as such weren't able to carry the fight to the enemy and keep it there for long periods of time. Now what if Starfleet Materials Command cobbled together a small handful of these type of ships AFTER the Dominion wars and mothballed them in "secure" areas where they might be able to be put back into action relatively quickly. Now if you are carrying replacement personnell to the forward areas and maybe even evacuating planetary or even a damaged battlegroups long-term care wounded an Ambassador/Nebula/ Galaxy Class saucer would be ideal. Now pretend for a minute the cargo boxes could be made into troop transport containers or even quarters for people on a planet that had suffered a planetary scale disaster. How many Trek stories have we read/heard about or seen where Starfleet can't save enough people on a doomed planet? What I see here is a versitile, multi-role platform.
Additionally, if the pods had other equipment maybe this could make a mobile base that could coordinate Starfleet logistical operations (not the actually warfighting but the supply/resupply/reinforcement and/or reconstitution operations). This in turn makes them key strategic targets for threat forces.
These ships once in operation, I would imagine would be rare, considered extremely valuable assets and would be defended by a large contingent of escort destroyers, corvettes, PFs and fighters.
In the end, each of us has their own corner of the Trek Multiverse to tweak to his/her hearts content a la "IDIC".
KF
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