#Intrepid-class

[chernobog13]

MEMO FROM STARFLEET COMMAND TO ALL PERSONNEL:

Intrepid-class starships are NOT designed to be used as snowboards.

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Commission for Jenny's Star Trek Adventures game of the USS Curiosity (Intrepid-Class) facing off a low-tech alien stealth ship in a Badlands-like nebula.

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Text-free opening credits for Star Trek Voyager (1995-2001)

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[lonestarbattleship]

So the next two Gerald R. Ford Class aircraft carriers will be named USS WILLIAM J. CLINTON (CVN-82) and USS GEORGE W. BUSH (CVN-83) was announced by President Biden.

Honestly, it's disappointing to see yet another carrier named after a politician. I was hoping for another Lexington, Saratoga, Midway or something other than a president or politician but I guess that's what we're left with these days.

The next Columbia class submarine will be named USS GROTON (SSBN-828), bucking the trend for ballistic missile submarines named after states or districts.

USS JACK H. LUCAS (DDG 125) completed acceptance trials, May 18, 2023. An example of an Arleigh Burke class. (source)

Instead, the name Intrepid is going to a Flight III Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer (DDG-145).

An artist rendering of the future U.S. Navy Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines. (source)

source, source

[licaonia]

♠️_La musica riempie lo spazio, intrecciando passato e futuro in un singolo momento. C'è qualcosa di magico in questo suono: un'eco di ere, un riflesso di emozioni, una sinfonia dell'anima. La melodia nasce dal tocco, trasformando un istante in eternità. Chiudi gli occhi e lascia che le note ti portino dove il tempo perde significato.🖤🌹

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USS Voyager by Mallacore

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"Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom are shown during their first inspection of the Gemini 3 spacecraft aboard the USS INTREPID (CV-11) following their successful Gemini-Titan 3 flight."

Date: March 23, 1965

NASA ID: S65-18713

[sunshinem0ths]

im gonna be sick over the fact that riz is established to never sleep because he's constantly up worrying over the next case to be solved, but also takes naps in the bad kids' backpacks, because with them he doesn't have to worry all the time, and he can just relax.

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two stories from Douglas Station

a few things i remembered from before my time on the Cerritos but after I graduated from the Academy, during about a year from late 2379 to 2380.

One is that Oberth Class starships are pretty neat overall, but they are extremely mission-specific vessels. They only have enough delta-v for their specific mission profile and as such don't have particularly strong or powerful impulse engines. But they do need a lot of servicing when they get back to spacedock to replace laboratory equipment, refuel, recalibrate, etc. The one time I got to do anything interesting with the impulse engines on one, was when we were outfitting one for a stellar survey. It needed a lot more delta-v than usual due to its target having a relatively high velocity, so I 're-geared' the impulse engine to use more of its fusion reactor power for subspace than for the main reactor, which drove up the specific impulse and reduced the thrust. As far as I know that ship ended up completing its mission just fine. That's when I learned that a lot of impulse engines, which are specified for a safety factor of 4, are actually due to an error given a safety factor of 8. (The fact that this error is pervasive in so many starship classes makes me wonder if it was intentional. Engineers DO like to push safety factors to the limit. Including me sometimes.)

The other thing is there was one time I was servicing an Intrepid class. These use bio-neural gel computers, and for some reason my manager brought me into the computer core to take a look at the bio-neural gel. I tried to diagnose the problem but computer science is really not my specialty. Now I realize that they were probably just laughing at me behind my back.

(The Intrepid class isn't the only class of ships that use bio-neural gel packs, but that was the only time I was ever called to look at them. The only other one I can recall off the top of my head is Sovereign class, but we never serviced a Sovereign class at Douglas Station during my time there.)

Anyway. One look at the linear array of impulse engines in the Cerritos and I was hooked. I knew I had to put in for a transfer. Most starships use impulse engine clusters but the Cerritos has SO MANY. Keeps me busy!

[chernobog13]

When the UPS guy didn't read the "this side up" note on the box.

[pcktknife]

every new thing i learn about dnd im like damn this shit crazy as hell

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USS Voyager, "Eye of the Needle"

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