Is anyone here enough of a Star Trek nerd to help me identify some specific ships from the lore? I tried Googling a few things and even poking around on the fan wiki, but my takeaway is that Star Trek doesn’t romanticize hardware the way, say, Star Wars does. Which is making it difficult to find a breakdown of ship names accompanied with images. Although when I do find something like that, it seems like it’s mostly fans spooging over various incarnations of the Enterprise. I mean, I get it, the command disc and offset nacelles have been badass for 50+ years, but there are only so many remixes you can do before you’re just Taco Belling it. Anyway, that’s not what I’m looking for.
What I’m looking for are the names of specific “Romulan warbirds” and “Dominion starships”, taken from a boardgame published by Wizkids called Star Trek: Frontiers. Here are the images of the Romulan warbirds, labeled RW1 through RW6 [EDIT: added images of the actual tokens instead of teensy pics from rules book]:
SOLVED SO FAR:
WB1: Science-class
WB2: Lenora-class scout
WB3: D’Dederix-class warship, cloakable, powered by a frickin’ BLACK HOLE
WB4: Valdore-class warship
WB5: Scimitar-class warship
And here are the Dominion starships, labeled DS1 through DS5:
SOLVED SO FAR:
DS1: Jem’Hadar fighters, hopped up on drugs
DS2: Cardassian ship
DS3: Breen battlecruiser
DS4: Jem’Hadar battlecruiser
DS5: Jem’Hadar battleship
If I’m being perfectly honest, I wouldn’t know a Romulan from a Dominion if I met one on the street. For some reason, they’re the generic Bad Guys in this game where the orcs normally go. And for all I know, these are just artwork whipped up by some intern at Wizkids. But I suspect these are be based on real models used in actual episodes, some of which might even have a name, or at least some larger context. Like, “oh, that’s the ship that kidnapped Scotty in episode 12 of TNG: Voyager” or “that’s the Dominion ship that attacked Scott Bakula when he invented the warp drive” or “those are the ships that blockaded Q’s home planet during the Siege of Janeway” or whatever. It’s been a long time since I’ve played Starfleet Academy, which is my only reference for Star Trek hardware, and I honestly don’t even recall whether or how ships are named in the lore, so this might be a fool’s errand on my part.
Those are the best images I could manage, and I know it’s especially hard to make out any detail on those tiny drawings of the Romulan warbirds (EDIT: fixed by uploading new images). But if anyone can offer any context here, I’d be much obliged. One of my issues with Star Trek: Frontiers is that these ships are all just pictures and numbers, so I’m looking for a bit of narrative backfill here in my Star Trek exploration. Any assistance would be much appreciated!
EDIT2: I’m going to list the answers as y’all help me uncover them!