Dover Class Minesweeper Vessel
Perimeter Action Vessel
In early border skirmishes with Klingon fleets prior to the Treaty
of Organia, the Starfleet Marine Corps called for the development of
a smaller, compact starship designed specifically for the insertion
of combat Marines into hot LZs. Due to the nature of Klingon forces,
the Marine Corps ruled out using shuttlecrafts and similarly sized vessels
for this duty, as they lacked the firepower necessary to hold off enemy
forces. Starfleet engineers turned to the Perimeter Action class vessels,
modifying the structure to accommodate living quarters and staging areas
for some dozen platoons of Starfleet Marines. The resulting Dover class
proved its worth after being deployed to the Neutral Zone and other
border regions of the Federation. Dover class vessels were also assigned
to diplomatic missions and to convoy protection.
Dover Class Production Schedule
| USS Glory |
USS Waterloo |
| USS Iwo Jima |
USS Dover |
| USS Standard |
USS Tripoli |
| USS Capella |
USS Kipling |
| USS Ironsides |
USS Panama |
| USS Surinam |
USS York |
| USS Kennedy |
USS Autry |
USS Glory
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell
USS Iwo Jima
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every
war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
USS Standard
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
- Carl Sandburg
USS Capella
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of
it.
- Robert E. Lee
USS Ironsides
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't
previously aware of.
- Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
USS Surinam
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
- Georges Clemenceau
USS Kennedy
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else,
a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend
to that one objective.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
USS Waterloo
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
USS Dover
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
USS Tripoli
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot
USS Kipling
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterwards.
- Vernon Sanders Law
USS Panama
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no
risk.
- Joaquin Setanti
USS York
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own
person is its ultimate reward.
- Patricia Sampson
USS Autry
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
- Dan McKinnon
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