Topic: Question regarding GSC

[knightstorm]

The days of zoos and barber shops are gone. Lol

Well, they would still need to have their hair cut, and real navies do have barbers so I don't see them getting rid of it.  Then again, they could probably use the holodeck.  A barber would probably be easier to program than an EMH.

[Corbomite]

I really do believe the Federation's Starfleet doesn't just switch classifications willy-nilly. In TNG times, there is a large ship called an "Explorer;" the Klingons or Dominion might consider it a BB, but not the Fede. They don't do war until they have to.

Indeed. In STIII the Klingon refers to the Enterprise as a Federation Battle Cruiser, when the Feds simply call it a Heavy Cruiser.

[TAnimaL]

all new ship designs have no more family members, no zoos, only combat, Sovereign, Defiant, Akira, etc... The days of zoos and barber shops are gone. Lol

Well, we don't really know that, or probably ever will, sadly. It does seem in ST8-10 that the Sovereign  is set for combat as Picard laments "Remember when we used to be explorers?", and clearly Defiant is a warship, but we never saw inside Akira, Steamrunner, etc. For all we know, after the Dominion War, Starfleet returned some ships back to family-capable. Voyager seemed to adapt very easily to being in a situation where families and children were on board.

Like a barbershop, those amenities aren't unnecessary frills, (or worse, just "smoke-and-mitrrors" to fool outsiders to the ship's real power), but helpful for the crew during long missions, whether combat or exploration. Just like modern naval carriers having gyms, movie theaters, lounges with Xboxes, an arboretum, a bowling alley, and lounges would be a necessity. Like in "Galaxy Quest" when Allan Rickman's character is asked right after a battle, "Where are you going?", he snarls, "To see if there's a pub on this ship!"

[Age]

STO/Star Trek Online classifies al of them as Cruisers even up to the Sovvy.I ma not sure how right they are but seeing as they have to get a license to use any ship.They might want to know what is.The Excelsior doesn't seem to be that big from the Ent-A as seen in the ending of ST6.

I would even say the K'Tinga is a Cruiser being the klingons best ship in the late 23C.

There wasn't much known about the ships of TMP era ships as there wasn't searies dedicated to that era so this could be explained.

The SFC community has listed the Galaxy and Sovvy as DN and Vorcha.

The Defiant I would say is Tactical escort.

Don't forget the Excelsior was desinged for transwarp travel which could mean a bigger engineering section as well as cargo holds.