Olympic class starship

[Grifter]

hello there !!!
I have a question about the Olympic class :
does it exist in the normal timeline ???

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[Phantom]

According to Price of Freedom, yes. PoF gives the LUG stats for the Olympic-class medical cruiser which dwarfs the medical capabilities of even Starbases. The only thing able to offer more services is the Graceful-class, no stats for it, yet.

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[redwood973]

Didn't they use an Olympic-class in the DS9 "Starship Down". If that is what it was, then it exists as canon. (I like the design, but I have a serious problem with the ship being armed. A hospital ship should never be armed. Being armed makes it a hostile no matter what its mission. At least they didn't give it photorps too!)

[Phantom]

I think in the Star Trek universe, with its deverse cultures, some of which don't know the meaning of the red cross, check out the SRM the Gem'Hadar were probably gunning for them. That even a hospital ship should be armed. Not heavily, yes I to like that it dosen't have torps. But the light phasers give it a better chance in a combat situation. You can be assured the Romulan Phaeros-class Medical Cruisers are armed, so way not starfleet?

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[John Raynor]

Re. A (Speculative) History of the
Olympic-class

Personally, I think that Olympic-class
starships *do* exist in the "regular"
timeline, but I don't think they're *all*
hospital ships.

Look at it this way: how many hospital ships
does Starfleet really need? Enough to
warrant an entire class of ships, built
"from the keel up" just to fill that niche?
Probably not.

I'd say that the Olympic-class exists in the
"Next Generation" era, and perform a variety
of missions. I can envision Olympic-class
vessels being used as research platforms,
for transporting high-priority cargoes, as
passenger liners, and as troop transports.

They probably weren't designed with combat
in mind, and since "up-gunning" them would
thus be difficult, the design would become
increasingly unpopular with as interstellar
tensions rise through the "Deep Space Nine"
era, and might be cancelled entirely after
a fairly short production run.

By the "All Good Things" era, there probably
aren't very many Olympic-class ships left,
and those few are either serving as hospital
ships (where the lack of weapons isn't a
problem), or as passenger liners making
safe "milk-runs" between the Federation's
core worlds. The rest are probably floating
in a "starship boneyard," waiting to be
cannibalized for spare parts...

[Phantom]

Both in PoF and SRM: Starfleet the Olympic-class is listed as a Medical Cruiser. Now they do say that it covers a varity of missions, surgical hospitals, MASH duties, humanitarian missions, etc. I don't think they would be used as troop carriers, that would totally blow away the concept of a "neutral" vessel that a Med. ship should be.

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[Phantom]

Besides I don't get the impression there is alot of the Class out there. Probably just enough for maybe 3-4 per fleet.

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[John Raynor]

Um...I'm saying that L.U.G. was wrong, and
that the Olympic-class was designed with a
variety of missions in mind, and that (at
least in the "Next Generation") era, many
(perhaps most) Olympic-class ships are *not*,
and never were, hospital ships.

[John Raynor]

Take a look at:
"http://www.kcatech.com/corpsman/ships/hospital_ships/index.htm"

Although a few hospital ships that were
designed and built as such "from the keel
up," the great majority of them seem to have
been converted from passenger liners or
troop transports.

[Phantom]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by John Raynor:
Um...I'm saying that L.U.G. was wrong, and
that the Olympic-class was designed with a
variety of missions in mind, and that (at
least in the "Next Generation") era, many
(perhaps most) Olympic-class ships are *not*,
and never were, hospital ships.</font>

Uhh, ok. Sure. (shrugs)



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[Grifter]

thanks, for the info

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[Perrryyy]

I have a slightly different take here. I think the Olympic class is still in service in the Dominon War, as a "patch-em up" and move the "patched" troops to where they're needed.

Not saying that it happened that way, just saying that it *could* happen that way, and if I were running a series, that's the way I'd do it.

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[SIR SIG]

I understand what he's trying to say.

Its a run of the mill workhorse class.

Designed to do many tasks including science, deep space (the DS9 one was deep explore of the Beta Quadrant), and medical duties.

Perhaps even with custom modules?

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[Dan Gurden]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SIR SIG:
Designed to do many tasks including science, deep space (the DS9 one was deep explore of the Beta Quadrant), and medical duties.
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The DS9 one? Do you mean the USS Olympia mentioned in 'The Sound of her Voice'?

If so, its class was never mentioned, and the name doesn't neccesarily imply an Olympic class, just a similar name.

I have the Olympia listed as an excelsior for my universe...


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[SIR SIG]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dan Gurden:
The DS9 one? Do you mean the USS Olympia mentioned in 'The Sound of her Voice'?

If so, its class was never mentioned, and the name doesn't neccesarily imply an Olympic class, just a similar name.

I have the Olympia listed as an excelsior for my universe...


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Oops mabye the wrong one.

There is one mentioned in the ships chart in the encyclopedia other then the Pasteur though.

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