[RFC] The United Federation of Planets

[robkelk]

There - that should explain why they Trekkies both could and couldn't build decent ships before the end of OGJ...

I was thinking more along the lines that they could build decent ships, they just couldn't build big ships. Lack of experience, excessive quirkiness, etc. kept them from getting anything larger than an Archer (or Bird of Prey) off the ground in any useable manner until they finally figured it out working on the Gagarins.

The idea on the member fleets is kinda interesting; might use that with a little remixing.

I was thinking of what we've seen in Trek canon when I wrote that - Vulcan ships have a different design philosophy than Terran ships, which have a different design sense from Andorian ships, and so on. Why not let each member state do its own thing?
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Rob Kelk
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