>>And, I might add, it would appear that Starfleet does field fighters,
>>of a sort: the Peregrine-class appears to be a heavily-armed
>>(for its size) single-pilot craft. (Of course, it's still somewhere
>>around 60' long, give or take, so it's probably got a transporter,
>>head, and sleeping cabin, just like most TNG-era designs.)
>
>Hey! I said that last night on IRC, except I was more sarcastic. :)

And talking about a different class of ship... but it does seem to be a truism of TNG-era Starfleet design. Unless it's a box strapped to an impulse engine (like the... Type 15 shuttlecraft, I believe), it's got to have a substantial number of amenities or, presumably, Starfleet officers and crew would whine about its inadequacies, or something. Well, okay, the Delta Flyer doesn't seem to have much in the way of amenities, but it's an ugly, shapeless blob that I'd just as soon forget about. The only thing I ever liked about that ship was its control yoke, though it hardly seems appropriate.

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