The Most Beat-on StarFleet class...

[frostytheplebe]

In light of all the conversation we've had lately about Star Trek I got to thinking about this... I seem to recall having this conversation before, so if I posted something like this I apologize, I didn't find it in my old posts.

After carefully reviewing the different classes (Excluding all Enterprises, Defiant, Voyager in our discussions) I have come up with the front runners... take your pick:

Oberth Class: (Image 1)
Grissom- Blasted by Kruge's Bird of Prey
Biko- Blasted by an anomaly that responded to the crew putting more power into its shields
Tsiolkovsky- Entire crew killed by the same disease that infected the Enterprise crew in "The Naked Time"
Yosemite-Caught in a plasma storm after the entire crew got caught in some transporter malfunction.
Pegasus- Destroyed in a failed test of the phase cloaking.


Miranda Class (image 2)
Reliant- Khan destroyed it by activating the Genesis device.
Saratoga- Disabled by an unknown probe heading for Earth
Saratoga II- Destroyed at Wolf 359.
Britain -Caught in a Tyken's rift. Entire crew killed due to REM sleep deprivation.
Lantree- Quarantined due to an aging disease. Eventually destroyed.
Sitak & Majestic Both destroyed escorting the Defiant through the Dominion lines.


Constitution Class (image 3)
Exeter- Entire crew lost due to unknown disease. Captain violated the prime directive.
Intrepid- Destroyed, Spock felt the crew die.
Lexington, Potempkin, Hood- Heavily damaged by the M-5 project
Excalibur- Destroyed by the M5 computer.
Constellation- Scuttled to destroy the Doomsday machine.
Defiant- Entire crew killed, ship sent to alternate universe.
Farragut-Captain and a portion of the crew killed by an unknown non-corporal creature.
Yorktown- Disabled by unidentified probe (Possibly refit as Enterprise A).

Excelsior class (image 4)
Excelsior- Disabled by Scotty. Heavily damaged trying to rescue Kirk and Mccoy. Took a direct torpedo hit battling General Changs Bird of Prey.
Melbourne- Lost at Wolf 359
Malinche- Heavily damaged while hunting the Marquis.
Lakota - Battled Defiant during the Federation Coup.
Valley Forge: Destroyed during the attack on Cardassia.
Grissom- Destroyed during Dominion war.

Ambassador Class (image 5)
Horatio- Destroyed by body snatching creatures.
Adelphi- 47 crew lost during the Ghorusda incident.
Excalibur- Heavily damaged (by unknown forces) crew reassigned.
Exeter- Heavily damaged during the Dominion War.


My vote goes to the Miranda class, most because we see them constantly used as cannon fodder during the Dominion War.

 

[Death]

Your Constitution Class list is kinda short one. Enterprise was lost over the Genesis planet, after it was scuttled.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Someday you're going to look back at these goofy Star Trek tech posts and smack yourself on the forehead.

 

[Frosty]

I especially like how the F in Starfleet is capitalized in the title.

 

[frostytheplebe]

Your Constitution Class list is kinda short one. Enterprise was lost over the Genesis planet, after it was scuttled.

That was intentional. We see the Enterprise get beat on a lot more then any other ship. Between being pummeled constantly by Klingons and Romulans, being trapped in a Tholian Web, and smashed up by the Reliant. You could make a case for the Constitution class on the Enterprise alone, which is not fair as we don't see the others in every Episode/movie.

Someday you're going to look back at these goofy Star Trek tech posts and smack yourself on the forehead.

Someday perhaps... today I don't give a Sh**.

 

[Frosty]

N* w*y, y** r*al*y d*n*t g*ve * sh**? Sh** *p!

 

[Dyret]

I don't get Star Trek classes... Whenever there is a Trek thread nine different classes come up, but they're all the same saucer with different stuff hanging under it... In the series most ships seemed to do everything too, so I don't really get it. I guess they're just in there for variation.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

I don't get Star Trek classes... Whenever there is a Trek thread nine different classes come up, but they're all the same saucer with different stuff hanging under it... In the series most ships seemed to do everything too, so I don't really get it. I guess they're just in there for variation.

He did include pictures. They're there for variation, but it's a variation that's sometimes necessary for storytelling -- Star Trek II, for instance, would have lost something if both the ships involved in the epic battle to the death looked exactly the same.

(Well, that is to say: they're initially created for some purpose that requires variation... and then the limited number of model types is recycled in future stories. The Excelsior's raison d'etre is that Star Trek III needed a ship that looked sleeker than the Enterprise... and then the spiffy model was used as a background ship in a hojillion later episodes.)

 

[Vinman]

I love my oberths, they're so awful, it's hard not to love them. Just like Baltimore.

 

[Tigerhawk]

Well, there's also the Galaxy class:

- Enterprise-D: Destroyed by Lursa & B'etor's Bird of Prey...and over and over and over again by the Bozeman in the Typhon Expanse
- Odessy: Destroyed by a Jem'Haddar kamikaze hit to the navigational deflector, which in turn came loose which, in turn, killed the starboard nacelle which, in turn, destroyed the ship
- Yamato: Destroyed by an alien probe screwing up her computer systems
- Unknown/forgotten named Galaxy-class at Wolf 359, flaming remains can be seen of what's left of the saucer section

Huh...I thought the Melbourne was a Nebula-class...

Also, if memory serves, the USS Drake was an Oberth that was destroyed by the Minosian probe in TNGs first season.

 

[DaveO]

Constitution class gets the win. M5 alone took out four of them before unplugging itself.

 

[frostytheplebe]

Well, there's also the Galaxy class:

- Enterprise-D: Destroyed by Lursa & B'etor's Bird of Prey...and over and over and over again by the Bozeman in the Typhon Expanse
- Odessy: Destroyed by a Jem'Haddar kamikaze hit to the navigational deflector, which in turn came loose which, in turn, killed the starboard nacelle which, in turn, destroyed the ship
- Yamato: Destroyed by an alien probe screwing up her computer systems
- Unknown/forgotten named Galaxy-class at Wolf 359, flaming remains can be seen of what's left of the saucer section

Huh...I thought the Melbourne was a Nebula-class...

Also, if memory serves, the USS Drake was an Oberth that was destroyed by the Minosian probe in TNGs first season.

The Enterprises are being excluded from this one for reasons of balance, but your other examples are sound.

It was never stated what the Drake was except that she was a frigate. The Encyclopedia lists her as a Wambundu class ship. Either way, Oberth class is clearly not a frigate.

There is some confusion about the Melbourne. Apparently someone listed the Melbourne as a Nebula class ship, but if you watch the first episode of DS9, an Excelsior class ship with the name "USS Melbourne gets its saucer section blasted in half. Its generally accepted as an excelsior class for that reason.

 

[Zelvik]

If you take a look at the various battle scenes from DS9, you ll notice that dozens of ships are blown to peaces in those battles. Most are never named, but there are several Galaxys, Excelsiors and Mirandas that just are there to get blown apart.

The most beaten class probably is the Peregrine. More of them blow up in the first instances of most DS9 battles than any other shipclass ever.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

I love my oberths, they're so awful, it's hard not to love them. Just like Baltimore.

Unlike Baltimore, though, they know science.





... and can read.

 

[Frosty]

Baltimore: The City that Breeds.

 

[Tigerhawk]

If you take a look at the various battle scenes from DS9, you ll notice that dozens of ships are blown to peaces in those battles. Most are never named, but there are several Galaxys, Excelsiors and Mirandas that just are there to get blown apart.

The most beaten class probably is the Peregrine. More of them blow up in the first instances of most DS9 battles than any other shipclass ever.

I'm thinking that, when Enterprise comes along the dead fleet, they must have grabbed every model of every ship class they could think of. There was the secondary hull of a Constitution-refit/Enterprise class floating about as well.

 

[frostytheplebe]

I'm thinking that, when Enterprise comes along the dead fleet, they must have grabbed every model of every ship class they could think of. There was the secondary hull of a Constitution-refit/Enterprise class floating about as well.

It was also the only time you saw the Wumbundu, New Orleans, and other classes. trekmania.com goes into a little more detail. Not sure how "canon" these are, but this is what was found.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

That reminds me, I was in Baltimore last weekend; the various CITY THAT BREEDS benches in Inner Harbour have all been replaced by silk-screened benches showing a series of images: JELLYFISH -> DINOSAURS -> A DINOSAUR TAKING A BITE OUT OF JELLYFISH.

 

[Tigerhawk]

That reminds me, I was in Baltimore last weekend; the various CITY THAT BREEDS benches in Inner Harbour have all been replaced by silk-screened benches showing a series of images: JELLYFISH -> DINOSAURS -> A DINOSAUR TAKING A BITE OUT OF JELLYFISH.

Uhm.......wow.

 

[Vinman]

Uhm.......wow.

Baltimore, man. That's Baltimore.