Ten years? That's barely old enough for the turbolifts to break in!

As a Miranda-class I just want to make this clear: No relation.

Just bolt some off-the-shelf upgrades onto the 23rd century ones and call it a refit.

Everybody else does.

The default replicator coffee on Melbs is...an acquired taste. It was programmed off the preferences of a specific repli-tech who liked a cup that could really stand up to milk and sugar.

...or power a warp core.

Specify "breakfast blend" or "Betazoid typica" if you want something more familiar.

Miranda-class FINALLY gets some respect and the politicians gotta ruin it.

Mighty FINE Miranda!

We feel more kinship with the B-52.

...but if you upgrade the power system and detune the Heisenberg compensators to .003 or so you can ABSOLUTELY mount something on our rollbar that goes BRRRRRRRRT.

That's not always true. Sometimes the correct answer is TWO Mirandas.

Can you believe there are people who choose not to spend their whole career on a Miranda?

I can tell you are a person of quality.

Who doesn't?

Stranger, you are welcome at Taco Tuesday on our ship anytime.

Now that's a mighty fine, Miranda.

Stuff rarely "goes wrong" with a Miranda. Stuff is ALREADY WRONG and the Mirandas show up anyway.

This is true sometimes. Mirandas are super-configurable. If you're hauling a bunch of stuff, yeah, the crew is crammed in a closet. The modern default config is surprising roomy!

Please don't actually acknowledge our long, long history of keeping the Federation actually running. We're not used to it and it embarrasses us.

Mission Summary: Melbs finds a group of cryo’d Neanderthals on a drifting ship, but no indication of who abducted them, where they were headed…or why.

As the same malfunctions that disabled the cryoship begin to affect Melbs, one of the Neanderthals bonds with the security chief.

Don't drag the Miranda-class into this.

Who doesn't?

Excellent choice.

Chekov had his moments, too.

The XO has promised that the next person who annoys the captain by telling a new recruit to hang a homemade Captain’s Day banner on the quarterdeck will be polishing dilithium crystals with a toothbrush.

Cheeky lower decks fun is ONLY cheeky fun when it STAYS on the lower decks.

There were also a lot of decommissioned ones in private hands.

"Recommissioning" of Mirandas- voluntary or otherwise- actually only happened a half-dozen times or so in the Dominion Warbut the idea has been used in quite a few popular holonovels...

...we prefer to say that Starfleet is quite reliant on US.

If a Miranda ain't flying apart is it really even a space battle?

(...it's okay when WE say it.)

The fact that Starfleet can build- and then customize to mission requirements- a seemingly-infinite number of Mirandas for the cost of a single Intrepid-class helps keep us relevant.

That and our cool-as-heck rollbar.

So the Chief of Logistics at the time got her start as as enlisted security...and had the scars and cybernetic arm to prove it.

The RUMOR is that she swapped the colors and pushed the new uniforms to production before anyone could stop her so that COMMAND would wear the infamous "redshirt".

DS9 had nothing to do with all the Mirandas on the front lines.

We just kept showing up and yelling "Put me in, coach!" until the admirals gave us a spot in the armada.

You're not alone in that.

The last Miranda Invasion I went to there were at least two attendees who'd tricked out their ships to look like that proposal.

I didn't get a chance to talk to either modder but the sensor readings all looked pretty normal so I ASSUME the mods were mostly cosmetic...

Mirandas are usually too busy GETTING WORK DONE to pose for photo-ops.