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"Favourite Starship", "Best Overall Space Vessel", whoever came up with this meme was determined that no one would be able to give a smartass answer to "favourite ship".
I was going to make a crack about how this is basically the same question as the earlier starship one, but then I realised I had a different answer.
The best overall space vessel is ... the USS Defiant.
Mostly for external reasons: its overall aesthetic is similar to Voyager -- grey and silver, v stylish -- but it doesn't have any of the comforts we're used to seeing on a 24th century starship. No seat for the first officer, tiny shared quarters with bunks, a cramped little mess hall. It looks like what it's meant to be: a tough little warship.
Which makes it particularly galling that it's disabled within a few minutes of its fight with the Borg. IT WAS DESIGNED TO FIGHT THE BORG. COMMANDER SHELBY KNOWS HER SHIT, DAMMIT.
(Is it book canon or my own headcanon that Shelby was behind the design of the Defiant? I know Sisko also worked on it, but he doesn't join the project until after Wolf 356, whereas she was designing anti-Borg weapons a year in advance. Either way.)
( The final five days. )
I was going to make a crack about how this is basically the same question as the earlier starship one, but then I realised I had a different answer.
The best overall space vessel is ... the USS Defiant.
Mostly for external reasons: its overall aesthetic is similar to Voyager -- grey and silver, v stylish -- but it doesn't have any of the comforts we're used to seeing on a 24th century starship. No seat for the first officer, tiny shared quarters with bunks, a cramped little mess hall. It looks like what it's meant to be: a tough little warship.
Which makes it particularly galling that it's disabled within a few minutes of its fight with the Borg. IT WAS DESIGNED TO FIGHT THE BORG. COMMANDER SHELBY KNOWS HER SHIT, DAMMIT.
(Is it book canon or my own headcanon that Shelby was behind the design of the Defiant? I know Sisko also worked on it, but he doesn't join the project until after Wolf 356, whereas she was designing anti-Borg weapons a year in advance. Either way.)
( The final five days. )
