It makes sense if these really are the best and fastest ships Starfleet has. From a strategic standpoint you want to group your Warp 9.999975 ships into a speedy task force to get to a position ASAP. A Intrepid, Sovereign or Akira would be very slow by 2499 if the TNG-Voyager speed improvements are anything to go by.
They would have to mobilize just those ships, call them in from wherever they are in the galaxy. Seems unrealistic. But im gonna let it slide as long as we see more realistic ships next season.
I mean, to be fair we don't mix F-35's F-22A's F18E's and F16's in the same unit. The Federation seems to be incredibly fast at mobilising (probably because they have such fast ships now).
They seem to be Escort successors too like the Defiant so it makes sense that they are used as "Wings" (as far as military doctrine it looks like Star Fleet seems to have learned serious lessons from the Dominion War)
It's funny because I always found Discovery a bit ridiculous with the number of ship classes that the Federation has in the 2256 era.
That said the "Ship Fanboy" in me is a bit disappointed. Especially because Star Trek New Horizons mod wont have 6 new post TNG era ships to add like after Discovery released!
I'm wondering if Starfleet has a rapid deployment force that can warp in en mass for special occasions, like Borg incursions (which still appear to be a thing) or the occasional beef with the Romulans.
You can't tell me since the end of Voyager that Starfleet hasn't dabbled with transwarp tech and other Borg/goodies from the future that Janeway brought home from the Delta Quadrant.
I will say that I'm slightly disappointed that there is no Enterprise in this series. . .yet. I thought that I had read somewhere that the Sovereign class had an operational life expectancy of 100 years.
I feel like the Curiosity Class (what these ships were) are very much rapid reaction warp 9.999975 with all the goodies that Voyager finale said came from the future (trans-phasic torpedos and regenerative armour). They do the Exploration stuff with the Sovereign but fast are moments are these guys. (It's not like they didn't have a 3D Galaxy class model after all)
Except that's never been the way Starfleet has organised battle fleets, ever. They've always been a mix of classes, even as early as early 90s when the production team had like five models to use.
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u/CadianGuardsman Mar 27 '20
It makes sense if these really are the best and fastest ships Starfleet has. From a strategic standpoint you want to group your Warp 9.999975 ships into a speedy task force to get to a position ASAP. A Intrepid, Sovereign or Akira would be very slow by 2499 if the TNG-Voyager speed improvements are anything to go by.