The Autobiography of Captain Janeway

[McAvoy]

I dunno, I don't know Star Trek technicalities but I felt that the show was based around the idea that the Voyager was not a ship meant to be as prestigious or as impressive as your typical Enterprise fair. In fact, I thought its whole feeling was that it was meant to be a middle of the road ship ala The Orville (which is okay more like the bottom of the barrel) versus the various Enterprises.

Perhaps I was equating it too much with Deep Space Nine which is a space station that was meant to be the dregs before it became the host of a wormhole.

Voyager wasn't supposed to be like a Toyota Prius though. It was specifically designed like a state of the art Audi made to traverse through San Francisco. Enterprise is more like a 7 series BMW; it's not as if it can't get in over its head, but it's generally owning the road the easiest.

Voyager of course wasn't supposed to be a Prius. Voyager was more of a Corvette. The Galaxy would be considered at best, a tank. Honestly hard to compare the two with cars. Maybe a truck that got supped up?

I don't think it's very necessary for all intents and purposes. Voyager happens to be the fastest ship in service, but I think that its edge was more supposed to be its state of the art technologies and scanners. Most of what we see Enterprise doing first is exploring the galaxy on the 5 year mission, while the revamped D is much bigger but still cruises for the most part and acts as a floating arbiter of the federation or a bumble bee.

I'm not sure why you feel the comparison serves to be scrutinized to varying specifications.

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[Madner Kami]

Voyager is state of the art and a little beyond. The adjustable nacelles, bioneural gel-packs, the holographic backup doctor, scanner arrays unknown to any other Starfleet design, beyond maybe the actual class-ship "Intrepid". It certainly isn't the obscenely oversized luxury cruise-liner that a Galaxy is, but it has the same mission profile of long range exploration and is also stated to be the first ship in the fleet, to feature a class 9 warp drive (whatever that actually means).


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Smaller, quicker, better sensors, sufficient creature-comfort to evidently see an unexpected 7 year long range exploration mission through, without the crew going crazy (except for the captain). "Starfleets most up to date vessel" and also only has about 15% of the crew complement of a Galaxy, while being about half as large (while being about the same dimensions as a Constitution, though having almost triple the interior volume, it has less than half of Kirk's Enterprise's crew complement). Let particularly that sink in for a moment, especially in relation to what was said elsewhere on this forum regarding this issue on a Galaxy.

Between a Galaxy and an Intrepid, I would always go for the later, except maybe if the mission profile is stated to be an evacuation of a planetary-sized population.

[McAvoy]

Intrepid class to me seems to be a bridge between the TNG style ships and the Borg fighting ships we see in First Contact. Pretty much all of the First Contact new ships have a distinct look to them.

Didn that Klingon episode in Voyager give a higher limit on the life support systems? Like around 300-350 people? Definitely less than Kirk's Enterprise. Voyager seems to have the same issue as TNG as far as way underestimating the size of their ship in the show.