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USS Forte... Final Version
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Technically speaking, this plan is yet another extrapolation of the USS Concorde bridge of 2350 into the aesthetic of the later TNG era. However, since it has been established that the old Concorde had been retired by then, a new ship name was required to tack onto this plan.
I wasn't happy with the first version: too much like its antecedent, still clinging too closely to the strict circular plan — a layout that the TNG era moved beyond. So back to the drawing board for a bit of reworking to modernize the plan further.
From an early stage, I had conceived that the extended bridge design was a common feature shared by a limited number of early MIRANDA and refit CONSTITUTION Class ships. And since the latter day vessels of the fleet almost universally are outfitted with similar deck plans, it seemed reasonable enough that such might come into vogue with Fleet planners again for these venerable lines, a generation after abandoning the layout as redundant.
To make an argument for the more elaborate setup of the Forte bridge: it is configured as a convoy escort frigate.
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The Last Mission of the Forte
The history of the USS Forte was largely unremarkable until the Dominion War, ultimately distinguishing herself during a doomed supply mission. Surviving an ambush that destroyed her sister ship, the like-class USS Hardiman, and left 43 of her own crewman dead and half of the remainder seriously wounded, the Forte managed to destroy her superior attacker by seeding a field of quantum torpedos (which she had been transporting) on proximity-attack fuses for a nigh suicidal mass fusillade.
With a third of her saucer blown away and barely 40% of her spaceframe's material structural integrity intact, the stricken ship defied all odds and managed to limp to her planned rendezvous with the USS Venture bearing her casualties and the survivors from the Hardiman, held together by an engineering miracle of power rerouting, forcefield rigging (the work of her Deputy Chief Engineer, the Chief having died in the first assault) and sheer luck. By all logic, the shattered Forte should have broken up along the way, but — observing strict communications silence — she successfully sustained warp velocities, her struggling engines coaxed to hold on for one last voyage, the harrowing four days' trek from the battlefield.
Towed to port by the Venture, the mortally wounded Forte would be immediately decommissioned so that a new AKIRA Class ship could be christened with that name.
The Captain of the old ship — whose exemplary action during the crisis earned the commendations of his superiors — her erstwhile Engineer, and much of the surviving crew, would eagerly be reassigned to that new vessel, which remained in service to the end of the war and into the present era.
Digital Illustration, Adobe illustrator.
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"Star Trek" is a Registered Trademark of CBS Studios Inc
High Resolution PDF Edition
Technically speaking, this plan is yet another extrapolation of the USS Concorde bridge of 2350 into the aesthetic of the later TNG era. However, since it has been established that the old Concorde had been retired by then, a new ship name was required to tack onto this plan.
I wasn't happy with the first version: too much like its antecedent, still clinging too closely to the strict circular plan — a layout that the TNG era moved beyond. So back to the drawing board for a bit of reworking to modernize the plan further.
From an early stage, I had conceived that the extended bridge design was a common feature shared by a limited number of early MIRANDA and refit CONSTITUTION Class ships. And since the latter day vessels of the fleet almost universally are outfitted with similar deck plans, it seemed reasonable enough that such might come into vogue with Fleet planners again for these venerable lines, a generation after abandoning the layout as redundant.
To make an argument for the more elaborate setup of the Forte bridge: it is configured as a convoy escort frigate.
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The Last Mission of the Forte
The history of the USS Forte was largely unremarkable until the Dominion War, ultimately distinguishing herself during a doomed supply mission. Surviving an ambush that destroyed her sister ship, the like-class USS Hardiman, and left 43 of her own crewman dead and half of the remainder seriously wounded, the Forte managed to destroy her superior attacker by seeding a field of quantum torpedos (which she had been transporting) on proximity-attack fuses for a nigh suicidal mass fusillade.
With a third of her saucer blown away and barely 40% of her spaceframe's material structural integrity intact, the stricken ship defied all odds and managed to limp to her planned rendezvous with the USS Venture bearing her casualties and the survivors from the Hardiman, held together by an engineering miracle of power rerouting, forcefield rigging (the work of her Deputy Chief Engineer, the Chief having died in the first assault) and sheer luck. By all logic, the shattered Forte should have broken up along the way, but — observing strict communications silence — she successfully sustained warp velocities, her struggling engines coaxed to hold on for one last voyage, the harrowing four days' trek from the battlefield.
Towed to port by the Venture, the mortally wounded Forte would be immediately decommissioned so that a new AKIRA Class ship could be christened with that name.
The Captain of the old ship — whose exemplary action during the crisis earned the commendations of his superiors — her erstwhile Engineer, and much of the surviving crew, would eagerly be reassigned to that new vessel, which remained in service to the end of the war and into the present era.
Digital Illustration, Adobe illustrator.
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"Star Trek" is a Registered Trademark of CBS Studios Inc
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Such a beautiful ship gone...