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The good ship Palo Alto

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An obscure piece of the Polaris lore, the USS Palo Alto, Captain Metlesits's first command, back in his Captain Lieutenant Days.

The First Fleet saved many of the Daedaluses (Daedali?) from scrapping and bought them from Starfleet after their retirement. Nobody argued about the purchase, for the ships were old, slow and obsolete. But it was special for many Terrans, because it was the last truly Human-designed ship, and the one that helped Earth win the Romulan War. Thus, although they were converted to science vessels, the Daedaluses were battleships at heart.

These venerable old ladies were the First Fleet's short range cruisers, training vessels, sometimes even cargo ships. The Palo Alto was circling the path of the pre-Federation Earth colonies. David Metlesits was one of her Skippers for one and a half years, earning the nicknames Skip and Herr Kaleu from Vasya nussbaum and Rochus Heimann, who were with him even in their pre-Polaris days. The Palo Alto kept serving Terra till the late 23rd century, becoming from frontline battleship to science vessel to patrol ship to an odd relic of a by-gone era.



I just had to build this baby...





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Oh why oh why didn't they use the refit version with the pylons moved back to the midships of the secondary hull as the NX-01 in ENTERPRISE. That would have been such a good concept, and set it after the Earth-Romulan War. That would have opened up such a better a link to TOS. Your work as always is superb. Cheers.