I think it was generaly agreed upon that this ship would probably have been in the same era as the new orleans, freedom, challenger ect, in other words some where in the early tng period. I am planneing to ballance it somewhere along with the wolf359 ships I converted back in 2006. Now, I am wondering, should I do that, or should I do a dominion war/stx era hardpoint instead, or both (since it wouldn't be any more dificult than changing stats. At 278M it is smaller than the smallest of the Wolf359 vessels, the New Orleans at 340m. I will put it over the larger freedom in shield power and combat ability due to the freedom's obvious older appearence and lack of large phaser arrays and the challenger for the fact that the Gagarn also has torps.
If I do a dominion war STX hp it will give the oppertunity to use the fancy STX photon, and turning off the single fire on the phaserbanks.