I think I've noted before that if I could get away with it, I'd keep some of my captains in their starter ship for their whole careers. This is especially true of Captain Gryphon, who has a certain attachment to the Ranger owing to the fact that it's the only piece of his old world he's got left (apart from his crew, of course). However, in practical terms you just can't get away with that in the game.

Fortunately, there is a small selection of relict 2260s ships available as part of the same time-travel DLC that gave us the rather-too-short TOS mission set in the first place. They cost Real-World Money, of course, but I'm OK with that, because I think they're cool, and you can get them à la carte, without taking the entire 130-zorkmids package of All the Time-Travel-Related Stuff Ever, which is nice.

Here's Captain G's current ride, a Perseus-class "temporal escort". (Why "temporal"? I don't know. Maybe they're literally supposed to be from the past like the TOS-character starter ship? Maybe they're supposed to be from the far future but disguised to look like ships from the TOS era and then they ended up in the post-TNG era due to a clerical error and the time police just went with it? Who the hell knows. The time travel lore in STO is even sketchier than it is in regular Star Trek, which is saying something. The point is they're TOS-style ships and that makes them cool. My forum, I make up the rules. Usually as I go along. :) Sorry, digression, anyway here's the ship.

I admit the name is slightly comical if the first thing you think of is chain saws (which is at least half the reason I picked it), but I figure since they're destroyers "escorts", there's a block of them named after arsenal towns—USS Izhevsk, USS Cugir, USS Uherský Brod, and so forth. (Note that the Husqvarna's registry number is the year the rifle factory in town was privatized as Husqvarna Vapenfabriks AB.)

The tier-4 ship in this same range, the Gemini class, looks like a TOS version of the Constellation class, which is pretty boss. And the tier-5 one is called the Ranger class, which I choose to mean it was developed just after Captain G and company left 2270 and named after The Heroic Sacrifice Of The USS Ranger. :)

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