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What ship in the EVE universe, is the USS Enterprise the equivalent of ?

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Theodoric Darkwind
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-10-01 05:45:20 UTC
TOS enterprise was the battlecruiser of its era, the exelcisor class would have been the BS of that era.

with TNG/DS9/Voyager, the enterprise D would have still been a battlecruiser despite its size, the enterprise E would have been more of a BS class vessel. the Defiant was something along the lines of a HAC but closer in size to a destroyer (massive firepower, small, fast package), the Voyager was more akin to a strategic cruiser and would be something like star treks equivilent to a tengu.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2012-10-01 06:10:29 UTC
The Enterprise is a science and exploration vessel. Albeit a very heavily armed one.

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Shogun Archer
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-10-01 09:30:30 UTC
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Inquisitor Kitchner
The Executives
#24 - 2012-10-01 09:47:23 UTC

To answer OP: Some sort of T3 cruiser set up with the scanning array and other exploration type stuff.

The Enterprise was a science/exploration vessel remember, not a dedicated combat ship.

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Graelyn
Aeternus Command Academy
#25 - 2012-10-01 10:02:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Graelyn
Ok, look at relative sizes to the Rest of what was out there, don't compare across universes in terms of size and armament, because EVE and ST have vastly different ideas on how future tech goes....

That said,

NCC-1701 (Constitution) was a registered Heavy Cruiser in Starfleet. (BC). It could fight Klingon d-7 Battlecruiser 1v1 with good balance, depending on Torpedo stores, which was the Fed-edge weapon system.

NCC-1701-B (Excelsior) was at least a half larger than the Connies. (Battleship)

By the time the C came along (Ambassador class), tech had jumped, along with size, with the Excelsiors now as battlecruisers, and the new Ambassadors as Battleships.

So, now watch 'Yesterday's Enterprise', and the difference in size from the C to the D. It actually wasn't that much.

The Enterprise-D seems to be a marauder, a full T2 rebuild of the old idea, with a ton of utility abilities that had never been crammed onto a ship like that before.

Carriers and dreads don't have a lot of help here, since by DS9 era, there were still no Dreadnought vessels (at least in the recognized cannon, SFB and such always had some triple-hulled, 3 nacelle monstrosities to cough at), and the only dedicated carriers in Starfleet were the Akira-class, which are actually closer to the old Constitution-class in size.

The Sovereign-E ?
I don't see a direct comparison...maybe a Machariel...

This is a tricky subject also, not because of size and power, but of speed!
Trek ships did not have speed limits. Everything from the smallest shuttle to Romulan D'Deridex Warbirds could accelerate to .7-.8 lightspeed on impulse, and could turn pretty fast too, thanks to the insane amount of physics-cancelling fields that were always killing inertia or ******* with the way mass worked.

Why did I write all of that? Shocked
[edit: especially when dude wrote some for me at the top of the same page?]

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Pertuabo Enkidgan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2012-10-01 10:07:06 UTC
Arbitrator.
Graelyn
Aeternus Command Academy
#27 - 2012-10-01 10:19:56 UTC
Voyager could be an Arbitrator (sans drone bay....then again, maybe it was a shuttle construction bay instead...they lost 15 a season...)

The Defiant is a Stealth Bomber.

It also is silly and breaks all rules applied to all other vessels and all other ships, using the old 'Prototype!' go-to-line.

The Prometheus-class is a Tech3 Battleship (if those existed).

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Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#28 - 2012-10-01 10:21:39 UTC
**** fit whatever it is...

its dual tank of shields and hull

and dual weapon systems of lasers and torpedoes

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De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2012-10-01 15:49:39 UTC
Skippermonkey wrote:
**** fit whatever it is...

its dual tank of shields and hull

and dual weapon systems of lasers and torpedoes


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Riedle
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#30 - 2012-10-01 16:27:24 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
The Enterprise is a science and exploration wessel. Albeit a very heavily armed one.


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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#31 - 2012-10-01 17:15:09 UTC
pussnheels wrote:


( Star trek all series was great but so different than this universe no point in making comparrisons )



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Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#32 - 2012-10-01 17:22:31 UTC
Graelyn wrote:
Voyager could be an Arbitrator (sans drone bay....then again, maybe it was a shuttle construction bay instead...they lost 15 a season...)

The Defiant is a Stealth Bomber.

It also is silly and breaks all rules applied to all other vessels and all other ships, using the old 'Prototype!' go-to-line.

The Prometheus-class is a Tech3 Battleship (if those existed).



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Wolf Kruol
Suicide Squad Gamma
#33 - 2012-10-01 17:22:31 UTC
OST was constitution Class Starship. Battlecruiser, Same with the Enterprise class NCC-1701 -A Refit of the Constitution.

Later they NCC 1701 B was Battleship class Excelsior refit.

NCC 1701 - D is galaxy class Maybe dreadnaught? For sure the NCC 1701 -E Sovereign fits that bill. Blink

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#34 - 2012-10-01 17:23:23 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
pussnheels wrote:


( Star trek all series was great but so different than this universe no point in making comparrisons )



I'll bet ISK this thread ends with a Picard/Obi-Wan Debate (Argument) Big smile


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#35 - 2012-10-01 17:34:38 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
i wonder what would win, titan or super star destroyer

SD has functional weapons that can you know hit stuff and fighters. Titans just set in POS and light bridges every now and than.

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Dragon Outlaw
Rogue Fleet
#36 - 2012-10-01 17:37:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Dragon Outlaw
Except in one particular episode, the Enterprise NEVER could fly through a planet!! Big smile
Rats
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#37 - 2012-10-01 18:19:08 UTC
Explorer Tengu



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Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#38 - 2012-10-01 18:38:40 UTC
Pipa Porto wrote:
ALCYONE wrote:
Saw this link , not sure if the reative sizes are true; for example I could not image hundreds of people living in only a 400-600 M starship for very long ? Link: http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/size-comparison-of-famous-sci-fi-spaceships-infographics/


A Naval Ship of the 17th-18th Century would carry a crew of hundreds (The HMS Victory carried a crew of 800) while being far smaller than that (The HMS Victory is under 70m long, 15m wide) and be at sea for years. Sailing was the rough equivalent of space flight at the time.

The USS Enterprise is 340m by 80m (max) and carries a complement of up to around 6,000. They don't call them floating cities for nothing.

But 5,990 of those people are redundant. The whole ship can be run by just 10 people: Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhuru, Sulu, Chekhov, and Nurse Chapell. Them, plus two anonymous security guys to get chomped or vaporized on the more dangerous planets.
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
#39 - 2012-10-01 19:11:05 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
i wonder what would win, titan or super star destroyer



The SSD would win. It has 1000 fighters and thousands of weapon turrets. The titan only has 8 guns.
Ager Agemo
Rainbow Ponies Incorporated
#40 - 2012-10-01 19:41:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Ager Agemo
Shizuken wrote:
Herping yourDerp wrote:
i wonder what would win, titan or super star destroyer



The SSD would win. It has 1000 fighters and thousands of weapon turrets. The titan only has 8 guns.



As much as i love star wars seriously.... its so ******* full of bullshit that when i try to think about it from a science fiction standpoint i cannot help but feel like puking, by star wars statistics, Xwing fighters fire "laser Bolts" that do megaton damage to whatever they hit, at a rate of fire similar to that of an AK-47 basically they would disintegrate a titan in a few seconds.

by now if i were to say which one has the best accuracy science fiction wise among all this spaceship series, it would be babylon 5.