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Dakkar

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Trek Scales
« on: February 23, 2019, 05:43:56 pm »
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Re: Trek Scales
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2019, 06:52:34 pm »

 Yes, and the whole issue of trying to get some kind of gaming scale agreed upon has also been a fight over the years. 

 BTW, did I see the Andromeda Ascending in that one image?
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Re: Trek Scales
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2019, 10:38:17 am »
Quote from: Covertwalrus on February 24, 2019, 06:52:34 pm
BTW, did I see the Andromeda Ascending in that one image?

Yep, they snuck some good ones in there. I had forgotten that V'Ger was an actual ship, not just a cloud.
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Re: Trek Scales
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2019, 10:37:37 pm »
Well, as I've observed before (when discussing Star Wars Armada), I don't think the original creators of these franchises ever envisioned a bunch of people sitting around a table using small models of their spaceships to conduct tactical maneuvers. I think they probably just went with "hey this looks cool" and that was that. Hence the MASSIVE size difference between the original Constitution-class and the later Galaxy class (almost double the size)...isn't technology supposed to get smaller as it becomes more advanced??
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Re: Trek Scales
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2019, 11:11:24 am »
Quote from: Landlubber on February 25, 2019, 10:37:37 pm
isn't technology supposed to get smaller as it becomes more advanced??

To quote a Dinosaur character from Burroughs (William S.) - "Bigger is better, and biggest is best" ;-)
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Re: Trek Scales
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2019, 05:12:38 am »
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sn't technology supposed to get smaller as it becomes more advanced??

 Cellphones would argue the opposite . . . From bricks to flips, then larger and larger touchscreen jobs :)

 Justified in Trek by the tendency for starships to go on longer and longer missions as tiem went on, therefore needing more people, equipment and resources on baord.
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