Was the Ascendant class Forgotten?

[Brad]

Hey Steve was the Ascendant class Explorer forgotten, destroyed or replaced by the new Andoria class explorer?

[Steve Long]

Here's what happened on that, basically. It's a two-step process:

1. When I pulled out the initial list of ships from my TPOF draft, I was working from an earlier version that didn't include the Ascendant.

2. Later on, while reviewing TPOF, I discovered the omission. At that point I already had plenty of Explorers, all but one of them canon, so I just left it off.

I think someone has posted, or is working on, their own version of this ship, though.

Steve Long

[Steve Long]

I should add that, given that there's already an Andromeda-class Explorer, having an Ascendant, too, sounds kind of odd to me, given the name of the ship in the current UPN sci-fi show, Andromeda-- the Andromeda Ascendant.

Those of you who watch that show may have noted they have some pretty damn cool names for their ships.

Steve Long

[Caretaker]

Darn right about that Steve (except, Andromeda is syndicated, not on UPN. It probably is on the UPN affiliate in your area of the country, though).




Ship names:

Andromeda Ascendant
Eureka Maru
Eightfold Path
Renewed Valor
Crimson Eclipse
Starry Wisdom
Pax Magellanic
Majestic Prow
Continuation of Politics
Fires of Orion

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[Sarge]

There was also a Commonwealth warship named Continuation of Politics.

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[Steve Long]

Syndication, UPN, whatever -- all I know is that it bumped DS9 off the Saturday night lineup around here. Still, it's a good show; I'm enjoying it.

The Continuation of Politics definitely gets my vote for "Coolest Warship Name Ever."

There was also the Fires of Orion.

Steve Long

[CmdrBluejeans]

Originally posted by Steve Long:
The Continuation of Politics definitely gets my vote for "Coolest Warship Name Ever."

I consider it a great reflection of the literacy factor of the show that it took me a full three seconds to pull the quote which created that name from my head, and a poor reflection on the literacy factor of my friends that none of them could remember it at all.

BJ, who should have the original
class/reason for this thread done
by Sunday...

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[Cdr Scot II]

Yeah, the Andromeda names are cool - though the ship names in Ian M Banks' Culture books are still the best .

I suppose that you could argue that the other classes are variants of existing classes, e.g. the Ascendant class could be a late-production Ambassador variant, and the Andromeda would be an appropriate name for a Galaxy variant .

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[Sarge]

It reflects well on the literacy of this board that I didn't have to explain "Continuation of Politics".

I don't mean to sidetrack this topic permanently, but does anyone remember the names of three warships in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? My memory is kind of vague, but I think they were called Audacious, Courageous, and Suicidal Insanity. Anyone care to translate them into Klingon or Andorian?

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[This message has been edited by Sarge (edited 12-08-2000).]