Quote:Seems kinda silly to me - the small-scale ships, not the AI, I mean. If the Trekkies are going to try and build working copies of their fandom's ships (and you know damn well they are) seems to me that they'd try and build, y'know, full scale replicas instead of going for toy-boat versions. Plus, it's a little early in the timeline for them to be churning out full-scale starships.
On a different topic, are there any objections to the idea of a supporting character from the Trekkies having an SS scale (meaning under 250ft) version of the Prometheus, complete with free-roving-onboard "holographic" AI character? If so, how much better is a similarly scaled Reliant plus TNG (which the Reliant appeared often in) holodeck?
Thankfully, there's enough different types of shuttlecraft, runabouts, Delta Flyers and the like in Trek canon that would be in the prototype/flight-test stage in time for SOS-con and the zwilnik wars. (Same goes for the Warsies and their smallcraft, incidentally.)---
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