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The Galaxy Class Exploration Cruiser is an unseen ship (USS Andromeda) from the novelization of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".Interpreted design by Neale "Vance" Davidson.
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Β Now there's a ship whose canonicity is sitting on both sides of the fence. She can't actually be a Galaxy class, or that would open up a whole can of worms of Starfleet reusing class names (and might get confusing rather fast. On the other hand, she was mentioned in the novelization, so technically, she is canon.
Β I'm honestly in the camp that even with the shortened Excelsior nacelles and Constellation hull, she looks like a kitbash, but oh well.
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One of those odd is/isn't classes. Vance likes kitbashing.
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Β True, and he does a good job of it.
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If only the Enterprise A'sΒ Nacelles would have looked like theΒ Excelsior nacelles.
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Would have been interesting to see on screen.
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Wouldn't the saucer have to be monstrously thick- comparable to the Constellation class cruiser's- to accommodate a shuttle large enough to be useful in day-to-day operations?
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Not really. The Constellation's were actually bigger than normal.
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Personally, I never liked the "saucer full of shuttlebays" look of this type. Β Nowhere for crew quarters, labs, etc if it's full of bays.
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Nice job, I just thought of something, How about you can Make TNG era ships in TMP form, Maybe it could present a Challenge. You don't have to, Like I said It's just a Thought.
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Working on it.
Though, some ships don't translate well. And others already have their counterparts (Galaxy = Constitution/Excelsior, Nebula = Marco Polo, etc).
Of the few that work, some have already been done by others.
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I never thought of it that way
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It simply would have made sense for the Excelsior style nacelles to have been included on the Enterprise-A...such a missed opportunity...
The only thing I have to point out is that the novelization you speak of states the Galaxy had reached the Andromeda Galaxy... how is it that Starfleet was able to go extra-galactic in 2285, but the Voyager was screwed by having to go a 'mere' 70,000 light years in 2371? Retcon can be so much fun...
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The novelization was written before the PTB at Paramount ordered everyone to stop referring to Transwarp.
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No kidding. Don't forget the Enterprise's trip in "Star Trek V"
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Maybe transwarp worked for a little while, but they forgot to activate their Full Version copy and had service cut off.
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Best explanation I've heard, so far.
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Nice design! I wonder if she's the inspiration for the so-called "Galactic Survey Cruiser" we saw in Starfleet Battles board games and the Starfleet Command II computer game...?
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Awesomeness! I've seen this ship everywhere on the web. It's nice to finally call her something else besides "the ugly duckling."
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Really? I didn't know it existed, till someone asked for it.
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Interesting ship, the "Galaxy" for her day eh?
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Well, she was designed intergalactic travel and was named after galaxies. Also, this was before TNG series came out.
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Makes sense, its a nice interpretation of the "Federation Galaxy Ship" mentioned in the novel.
I also imagined it to be some sort of heavy Connie variant with extra equipment.
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Perhaps if the ends of the nacelles had more of an end to them, but they wouldn't be Excelsior nacelles at that point. It's a pretty neat design anyway.
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Not my design...And it was a request. So I had to keep to the actual design.
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Stubby Excelsior nacelles on a Connie with a "double stuff" saucer...Just a tad odd.
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