[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Yeah, but with voyager... it was hard enough to buy the seemingly endless supply of shuttles they seemed to have. Now add a seemingly endless supply of Captain's yachts?

But I agree. I had that nitpick ever sence Voyager began and they lost their third shuttle (By then it was starting to push it given how small she was), that Janeway should have had them start to use the yacht, instead.
And I do believe Voyager was supossed to have one, even though she was small.

Though, I think the E-E's yacht was used in Insurrection just to prove the concept exists. Otherwise, reusing a Runabout would have worked just as well for the plot. A Sovereign is large enough that she could have one. Maybe even have explained it as DS9's, that Worf used to get to the Enterprise. Heck... trek nerds... they wouldn't have had to explain it, if it was the Rio Grande. (I still wonder where Dax was. He was already married by then. She would have made an interesting addition to the plot. And it needed all the help it could get)

BTW, new fact about me... I am an absolutely HUGE starship nerd. I am obcessive over Trek Ships. Even used to have memorized stats, the way some kids memorize military jet stats.

It was certainly designed with one. They just never used it and it made no sense whatsoever.






I think used the Yacht in the movie to show the fans it exists but it also made sense for Picard to try and sneak away on it. It's his own private ship and there wouldn't be anyone around, unlike the shuttle bays. I know that a Galaxy class could fit multiple Runabouts since the Enterprise is the one that dropped them off to DS9 at the start of the series so I assume the E could have one.


I'm not big into Star Trek but I really enjoy the ships, and spaceships in general (especially space battle). Maybe that's why I enjoyed DS9 more than most because they actually went to war and we got to see a lot stuff blow up.