Star Trek

Such a noble cause. I will join, but give me a lower-down position where I won't need to be on all the time, because I am a very busy person and can't always be on.

You will be accepted. simply apply in the Quartermaster's Office

well, i must say. Its honorable wat u are doing. Ill join

Welcome to the Arizona Sisko.

The great time for battleships emerged after the spanish-american wars when the united states built a fleet of ships that would "patrol the world"... soon after the navys of many other nations emerged with large ships with heavy fire power.  The great battleship race emerged during the early twentith century when many nations including Japan, United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom began out-building each other.  Limits were emposed but not enforced after the first world war forshadowing a second world war which brought the naval battleship to the front lines of many operations on the sea.  

Perhaps the greatest advesary of the battleship was the submarine or U-boat which could come in undetected, as radar was in its preliminary stages and untrusted.  However, the shear size and hull armormant meant that u-boats and submarines needed to hit harder and faster.  The airplane was the best bet during world war 2.  Bombers and planes with torepdoes were used heavily by the US and the Japanese.

The assualt by the Japanese on pearl harbor utillized a sort of wooden torpedo that would skim the surface.  The fate of the seas would become more heavily dependent on more advanced models of the torpedo still used today. (And of course theres the Quatum torpedo as seen in star trek)

However, the big battleship became less an effective naval strateogy and more of a costly floating target.  Smaller vessels with missles and rockes as well as the jet launching pad such as aircraft carriers were more practical.

In the future one might see a return to battleships should armor improve beyond the reach of ones weapons.  Anywhere you need to get in close and blow the "crap" out of the other guy and take a few hits before moving on would seem to indicate the need for such a vessel.

I would expect your ship is not based on speed or agility like a smaller vessel, but rather like a large mobile tank able to give more hits and take a few herself.  Good luck to you, USS Arizona NX-1271941

::would like to add something::

Also they us navy replaced the battleships role as flagship with the aircraft carrier


(sorry i just LOVE aircraft carriers)

What would be the equivilent of the aircraft carrier in Star Fleet?

The star base is more of a port... and the shuttlecraft on board vessels are more like the row boat then anything.
It would seem that the future does not utilize fighters heavily. Which could note something about futuristic space warfare. ¿Possibly becuase a fighter might not be able to pentrate a ships shields?

while it was never actually built i read somewhere that there was a design for a large Fleet Carrier type ship. It wasnt designed anything like a conventional ship in Starfleet design style. It had a bow sort of like the Pasteur from All Good Things. There has never actually been an aircraft carrier equivalent ship built in Starfleet. However the Hydrans (another race that isnt mentioned but once or twice.) make great use of fighters and nearly everyship is equipped with fighters as a supplement to their shuttles in combat.

While it is named after the battleship Arizona the NX-1271941 is actually a heavy war cruiser. which is sorta like a fast heavy battlecruiser. It is the best combination between the speed of an Intrepid style ship and the firepower of a Defiant or Sovereign class

Ah. I had seen the Hydran ships in the Star Fleet Command game, but I never knew they actually existed in Star Trek cannon.

yeah they do...i dont remember where but im pretty sure they were actually mentioned in a .....TNG episode maybe...i dont remember.... might have been TOS


but as a reminder we need crew men badly. We have CO and Chief Helm. We need dedicated crewmembers badly though

Crew Update


Positions Taken:
Commanding Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Helm Officer

I will join this noble cause is xo open i would like to be in the cause

this is a vary meaninful simm i recomend it to any one in my eye

Thank you Qscicot. Im sorry about the temporary delay.

your welcome and no problem