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Pretty much any Trek ship could serve as a Flagship. There's nothing especially magical about flagships, the only real requirement is for them to have spare room and decent communications and sensors.

GCS would probably be the best choice, IMO.
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GrahamKennedy wrote:Pretty much any Trek ship could serve as a Flagship. There's nothing especially magical about flagships, the only real requirement is for them to have spare room and decent communications and sensors.

GCS would probably be the best choice, IMO.
I agree. Problems are 1. I have 6 Galaxy Class ships in my collection (8 if you include the dreadnought). 2. Even so, there are still WAY WAAAAY more powerful ships in my collection. Still, Idk tbh, which is EXACTLY why I'm asking in the first place.
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Meste17 wrote:I agree. Problems are 1. I have 6 Galaxy Class ships in my collection (8 if you include the dreadnought). 2. Even so, there are still WAY WAAAAY more powerful ships in my collection. Still, Idk tbh, which is EXACTLY why I'm asking in the first place.
As Graham said, pretty much any ship can serve as a flagship. In TNG / DS9 / VOY era we see Excelsior, Defiant, and Intrepid-class ships all acting as flagships for various taskforces. Neither the Intrepid nor Excelsior are particularly powerful, but both are equally suited to serve as flagships, and likely have several labs / rooms that can be converted for command centres.

Also I agree that one of the Galaxy-class, in this instance, would be the best choice.
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Tinadrin Chelnor wrote:
Meste17 wrote:I agree. Problems are 1. I have 6 Galaxy Class ships in my collection (8 if you include the dreadnought). 2. Even so, there are still WAY WAAAAY more powerful ships in my collection. Still, Idk tbh, which is EXACTLY why I'm asking in the first place.
As Graham said, pretty much any ship can serve as a flagship. In TNG / DS9 / VOY era we see Excelsior, Defiant, and Intrepid-class ships all acting as flagships for various taskforces. Neither the Intrepid nor Excelsior are particularly powerful, but both are equally suited to serve as flagships, and likely have several labs / rooms that can be converted for command centres.

Also I agree that one of the Galaxy-class, in this instance, would be the best choice.
Okay, then I'll make one of the Galaxy class ships my flagship.
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The GCS makes the most sense. I personally always liked the term Command Cruiser that came from Birth of the Federation.
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McAvoy wrote:I personally always liked the term Command Cruiser that came from Birth of the Federation.
I tend to use the designation when referring to the Galaxy during times of conflict.
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Tinadrin Chelnor wrote:
McAvoy wrote:I personally always liked the term Command Cruiser that came from Birth of the Federation.
I tend to use the designation when referring to the Galaxy during times of conflict.
In my mind, each Federation ship has two classifications. One for science and one for war.
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McAvoy wrote:In my mind, each Federation ship has two classifications. One for science and one for war.
I think it's more likely that they just give them a classification appropriate to their peacetime role and stick their fingers in their ears and whistle whenever someone asks about what happens when the shit hits the fan. Look at the Defiant's "experiment escort" euphemism.
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Captain Seafort wrote: Look at the Defiant's "experiment escort" euphemism.
Still hilarious. :lol:
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Isn't the Sov a enhanced deterant explorer?
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I think GK invented that along the lines of other canon descriptions; I could be wrong, but I don't recall ever hearing onscreen what the Sov was classified as.
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I thought TM maybe.
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I invented the Enhanced Deterrence Explorer label. I thought it was amusing that they called the Defiant an "Escort vessel" rather than a Destroyer (which seems to me to be what it is), and I thought it would be just like the Federation to have the most amusingly benign euphamisms for ship types. EDE was basically their term for Battleship.

(It also amuses me that "Enhanced Deterrence Explorer" gets over 14,000 hits on google!)
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Graham Kennedy wrote:I invented the Enhanced Deterrence Explorer label. I thought it was amusing that they called the Defiant an "Escort vessel" rather than a Destroyer (which seems to me to be what it is), and I thought it would be just like the Federation to have the most amusingly benign euphamisms for ship types. EDE was basically their term for Battleship.

(It also amuses me that "Enhanced Deterrence Explorer" gets over 14,000 hits on google!)
Well done Graham! :lol:
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