Still trying to keep an open mind...

[meirwen]

about the new Star Trek movie. As I said to a student, I can't begin to count the number of different "origins" versions of my favorite comic book characters I've read over the years, so why am I so protective of Star Trek.

Still, my favorite, absolute favorite episode of Star Trek is "Balance of Terror." Yeah, it's just Run Silent, Run Deep in

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[hawkyns]

I'm not impressed so far. They've said that this movie supposedly takes place before the first encounter with the Klingons. That's already at odds with the story so far, since Klingons are encountered during the prequel series, "Enterprise". And the way this one is being pushed as 'not your father's Star Trek', it would seem that they intend to ignore what already exist in favour of their new story line.

Hmmm... Wonder how a White Star would fare against a Kahless class dreadnaught......

[meirwen]

Isn't that really a destroyer v. carrier question, in which case it all comes down to a question of the skill of the commander and opportunity.

[hawkyns]

Too many variables. The White Star is listed as the most powerful ship in the Alliance in the tech manual, but also listed as a fast attack ship, a monitor class, and also said to be not as powerful as a battleship. Which is correct? On the other side, there are two Kahless'. The original, a four engined, uprated version of a Drell class, and the new one, a C7 class based on the Bird of Prey design.

Geek? Nah, not me.

[anglesandlight]

Whoa! I think that I will stay in the shallow end of the pool...I am dearly impressed with your knowledge of all things geeky!

Going off to re-inspect her geek creds, I do believe that I am still in the apprentice stage. I know, I can draw up the plans and see if that gets further along in the geek scale! :)

[hawkyns]

Well, it was the most powerful during the Shadow War--highly mobile and powerful (Alliance of Light), but after that they ( now the constituted Interstellar Alliance) developed the Victory Class heavy destroyers (Excalibur and the Victory). The Victory class has some of the mobility/agility problems of a dreadnought, but has not only White Star level firepower, but also a level beyond that.

I'll see your geek and raise you one. ;-)

[meirwen]

BTW, "anonymous" here is moi--I hadn't remembered to log back in. And to clarify, I think the White Star was the most "valuable" ship during the Shadow War, because of it's unsurpassed mobility and disproportionately (to size) firepower and targeting accuracy, but certainly the battle cruisers were stronger, especially the Minbari ships of the line.

[kelfstein]

The there is nothing quite like a Minbari ship of the line to get ones attention.