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This is why you don't poke the hornet's nest that is Starfleet. They are quite happy to be an exploration-focused space force with enough armament to be defensive. Push them too hard though and they can and will make some of the most devastating warships ever seen.

Starfleet obviously needs a historical course about Naval Peacekeeping. Having vessels that have parity with or slight superiority over the most probable threat axis doesn't start wars. It prevents them.
The most challenging part of that is to be credible, but without precipitating an arms race.

This ship has some of the most striking nacelles I’ve ever seen on a ship. Absolutely gorgeous design

bitter irony that georgiou would have hated having a war ship named after her, let alone an entire line of them...

I love TMP ship design, the hull colours and shapes are so striking.

I love the Georgiou Class. She is an aesthetically pleasing ship, and a worthy successor to the Walker Class. I like the Walker Class too, but the Georgiou is, in my opinion, a perfect blend between the Discovery and TMP eras.

1:37 I love this shot. Excelsior, Constitution, Miranda, Constellation, even a little Oberth, and the Columbia and Georgiou from STO. That "TOS Movie" era fleet from the 2280s is something we never got to see in action on a large scale, and I think the STO ships are fantastic additions. Makes me wish we could have more from that time.

ST:O imo does the best at blending old Trek and new Trek into a cohesive style and adding its own flair too it

These collabs are starting to work, its getting me interested in trying Star Trek Online....

I did have to chuckle at the nomenclature here, 'fast' battlecruiser. Maybe it makes sense within the lore as it exists in the game. Though when looking at the capital ships ST likes to take inspiration of one kind or another from and, well, there are battlecruisers and fast battleships, but no fast battlecruisers. Due to the fact that battlecruisers were already what happens when you try to make a contemporary battleship design go faster, by sacrificing armor and firepower.

(Fast battleships were created to do the same thing, but without sacrificing the protection or firepower to the extent a battlecruiser did. E.g. compare the Iowa class to the proposed Montana class.)

I didn't miss playing STO until I started watching these Ex Astris breakdowns...

Starfleet. They're democratic, they're egalitarian, they're diplomatic.

And they would like to LIVE long enough to continue being those things, even if they don't agree with it in the moment. It was a bad spot. It passed.

I will always adore the TMP ship designs most of all. They look like something we could actually build someday.

Georgio class should have had 3 warp cores, 1 for warp drive, 1 for weapons and 1 for powering the shields.

That is one sexy looking battle cruiser.

Let it not be said, that starfleet doesn't know how to make warships

Ooooh, a Centaur that's been hitting the gym hard...

1988, I built, using an Excelsior from FASA, and some random Aircraft parts (a 1/72nd scale P-61 gun turret, and nose/tail section bits from a 1/144 Blackbird, & other tidbits) a Ship quite like this! I even made up an SSD that had much-of this critter's armament. I'd sue, but, well, my Nephew has that Model now, and is some 2k miles away (suing made in Jest; to be clear)...

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Also Starfleet: proceeds to CONTINUE to cling to diplomacy even though there was literally NOTHING wrong with having a fleet of battleships for defense

Gene Roddenberry’s vision is a nice thought, but it’s sadly NOT how reality works

"Don't push the pink skins to the thin ice." Not very eloquent but... Any enemies of the Federation will find those words to be quite prophetic.