Gamilons are from... Space Battleship Yamato, I think - blue skin, red eyes, big space fleet that wants to destroy the earth. Amanda Dessler from The Symphony of the Sword is a Gamilon, but they haven't been used in UF in their origijnal adversarial role except as individuals.
Kzinti are your basic cat-aliens detailed in seven or eight volumes of short stories by Larry Niven known as "The Man-Kzin Wars" and which have also appeared in Trek - and one of the early Trek slash/alien lemons was responsible for Niven's draconian stance against fanfic ,which is admittedly a reason not to use them, though about the only thing unique about them is their species name, as they're identical in every significant aspect to every bunch of enemy cat-men I've even seen anywhere, right on down to Hanna-Barberra's Mr. Jinx if you count Pixie and Dixie as humans instead of mice.
The Prometheus class tactical cruiser is the four-nacelle ship from the Voyager episode Message In A Bottle that can split into three seperate parts to swarm enemies. It's roughly comparable in size to Voyager, with a slightly larger crew, but is designed along the combative mindset of Sovereign rather than the science-first Galaxy and Intrepid classes. All three bits are capable of independent warp flight, and the prototype, captured and manned by Romulans who could barely operate it, took out two Defiants and an Akira, plus two of the big TNG romulan warbirds after being retaken - at which time the total crew complement was two holographic projections and the ship's computer. Official info is scarce, since it had the one episode in the limelight and then a few seconds in the fleet scene of Voyager's final episode, but it's a very sweet ride, and since Janeway is an Admiral at SFHQ by the time Nemesis happens, they're probably in production by then. My best guess is that they're intended for shipping escort and patrol duties, since provision is made to merge the powplants when it's combined for efficiency, to get the standard five-year cruise duration, and one ship that can split into three is good when you may have several merchies to protect in a convoy and no backup for hours at best. The engineering hull pair is pretty locked, but the saucer section could probably be replaced with one holding more sciencey stuff as martial fervor dies down again in the Federation to give it a mission profile similar to TOS-Enterprise or what Voyager found themselves doing.
Star Trek Armada II mod screenshots
Bravo Fleet RP sim information
USS Panther City RP sim infomation
article by Rick Sternbach on designing the Prometheus - has good line art of the final version
LCARScom.net page, with a small image of the bridge
Ex Astris Scientia - Prommie is about halfway down here
Ship-O-Rama has many screenshots
All in all, it is very much a Sovereign writ small and given a special trick - the main advantage to that most likely being cost of construction and a smaller crew requirement, at a time when people are calling for more military protection against something like the Dominion war happening again, and Starfleet is quietly very concerned about the info Voyager has given them about the Borg, particularly data passed on from future-Janeway about the losing war with the Borg they were fighting in her time - and for those reasons, a likely candidate for armed recon in a possibly hostile area, since it has the teeth to fight back as well as anything else, but is ultimately a smaller investment of resources if that proves not to be enoguh - and looks less threatening than the three-times-bigger Sovereign or four-times-bigger Galaxy, for that matter. The same holds true for sending one to accompany a larger ship, since there's little point to a trekfic without the Enterprise of the era involved.
(One of my fragments-without-a-story ideas is USS Hecate, a Prometheus class with the aforementioned saucer refit after her original Alpha-hull was destroyed in combat, doing TOS style exploration on the frontier away from the Triangle, along the route taken by the Enterprise-A in Final Frontier - on the opposite side of the galactic core from Voyager's path as well. You could site your B5-space there, if you're not doing a parallel univere thing... Another is that the Trek timeline is very farr off from what the universe would normally follow, and hence why it's so easy to disturb and change completely away from the Federation we know, where most universes can have major, pivotal events change and still follow roughly the same course except for the immediate results. Look at all the different people who are supposed to be Harry Potter's father, and yet he still ends up gonig to Hogwarts, being freinds with Ron and Hermione, and being destined to fight the Dark Lord, even when said Dark Lord is not the same one, is himself Harry's father, or both.)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Kzinti are your basic cat-aliens detailed in seven or eight volumes of short stories by Larry Niven known as "The Man-Kzin Wars" and which have also appeared in Trek - and one of the early Trek slash/alien lemons was responsible for Niven's draconian stance against fanfic ,which is admittedly a reason not to use them, though about the only thing unique about them is their species name, as they're identical in every significant aspect to every bunch of enemy cat-men I've even seen anywhere, right on down to Hanna-Barberra's Mr. Jinx if you count Pixie and Dixie as humans instead of mice.
The Prometheus class tactical cruiser is the four-nacelle ship from the Voyager episode Message In A Bottle that can split into three seperate parts to swarm enemies. It's roughly comparable in size to Voyager, with a slightly larger crew, but is designed along the combative mindset of Sovereign rather than the science-first Galaxy and Intrepid classes. All three bits are capable of independent warp flight, and the prototype, captured and manned by Romulans who could barely operate it, took out two Defiants and an Akira, plus two of the big TNG romulan warbirds after being retaken - at which time the total crew complement was two holographic projections and the ship's computer. Official info is scarce, since it had the one episode in the limelight and then a few seconds in the fleet scene of Voyager's final episode, but it's a very sweet ride, and since Janeway is an Admiral at SFHQ by the time Nemesis happens, they're probably in production by then. My best guess is that they're intended for shipping escort and patrol duties, since provision is made to merge the powplants when it's combined for efficiency, to get the standard five-year cruise duration, and one ship that can split into three is good when you may have several merchies to protect in a convoy and no backup for hours at best. The engineering hull pair is pretty locked, but the saucer section could probably be replaced with one holding more sciencey stuff as martial fervor dies down again in the Federation to give it a mission profile similar to TOS-Enterprise or what Voyager found themselves doing.
Star Trek Armada II mod screenshots
Bravo Fleet RP sim information
USS Panther City RP sim infomation
article by Rick Sternbach on designing the Prometheus - has good line art of the final version
LCARScom.net page, with a small image of the bridge
Ex Astris Scientia - Prommie is about halfway down here
Ship-O-Rama has many screenshots
All in all, it is very much a Sovereign writ small and given a special trick - the main advantage to that most likely being cost of construction and a smaller crew requirement, at a time when people are calling for more military protection against something like the Dominion war happening again, and Starfleet is quietly very concerned about the info Voyager has given them about the Borg, particularly data passed on from future-Janeway about the losing war with the Borg they were fighting in her time - and for those reasons, a likely candidate for armed recon in a possibly hostile area, since it has the teeth to fight back as well as anything else, but is ultimately a smaller investment of resources if that proves not to be enoguh - and looks less threatening than the three-times-bigger Sovereign or four-times-bigger Galaxy, for that matter. The same holds true for sending one to accompany a larger ship, since there's little point to a trekfic without the Enterprise of the era involved.
(One of my fragments-without-a-story ideas is USS Hecate, a Prometheus class with the aforementioned saucer refit after her original Alpha-hull was destroyed in combat, doing TOS style exploration on the frontier away from the Triangle, along the route taken by the Enterprise-A in Final Frontier - on the opposite side of the galactic core from Voyager's path as well. You could site your B5-space there, if you're not doing a parallel univere thing... Another is that the Trek timeline is very farr off from what the universe would normally follow, and hence why it's so easy to disturb and change completely away from the Federation we know, where most universes can have major, pivotal events change and still follow roughly the same course except for the immediate results. Look at all the different people who are supposed to be Harry Potter's father, and yet he still ends up gonig to Hogwarts, being freinds with Ron and Hermione, and being destined to fight the Dark Lord, even when said Dark Lord is not the same one, is himself Harry's father, or both.)
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows