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So here's my latest design - the 'Lakota Class' Starfleet heavy destroyer. Designed to be a smaller version of the Sovereign class (approximately 500m long) but cheaper to manufacture and packing just as big a punch. Equipped with type XVI phasers, quantum torpedoes and Slipstream drive.
Design notes: This design is heavily based upon a concept sketch from the great John Eaves , which would later be coined as the 'Eaves class starship'. Using this as a basic template, I added similar modifications that Eaves added to the Excelsior class to turn it into the Enterprise-B (the flared secondary hull, modular impulse engines and warp fins). The elements have been updated to make the vessel look more contemporary. As the ship is equipped with a Quantum Slipstream Drive, I have added Slipstream sensors, much like those of the USS Dauntless, (NX-01-A) which are the small glowing protrusions on the aft of the secondary hull. I named the ship after the infamous USS Lakota, which featured in DS9's fourth season episode, 'Paradise Lost'.

Description

So here's my latest design - the 'Lakota Class' Starfleet heavy destroyer. Designed to be a smaller version of the Sovereign class (approximately 500m long) but cheaper to manufacture and packing just as big a punch. Equipped with type XVI phasers, quantum torpedoes and Slipstream drive.
Design notes: This design is heavily based upon a concept sketch from the great John Eaves , which would later be coined as the 'Eaves class starship'. Using this as a basic template, I added similar modifications that Eaves added to the Excelsior class to turn it into the Enterprise-B (the flared secondary hull, modular impulse engines and warp fins). The elements have been updated to make the vessel look more contemporary. As the ship is equipped with a Quantum Slipstream Drive, I have added Slipstream sensors, much like those of the USS Dauntless, (NX-01-A) which are the small glowing protrusions on the aft of the secondary hull. I named the ship after the infamous USS Lakota, which featured in DS9's fourth season episode, 'Paradise Lost'.