I'll admit that Cryptic could've made the legit T6 23c Constitution more easily available, but still...talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't.

PLAYERS: "WE WANT OUR T6 TOS CONSTITUTION CLASS! OUTRAGE!!!"

CRYPTIC: "Well, we have to work things out with CBS about that...we'll see."

PLAYERS: "MORE OUTRAGE!!!" rabble rabble harumph harumph

Later...

PLAYERS: "We still want our T6 TOS Connie!!! Yet more OUTRAGE!!! Oh, and uh, more RAGE about that Nagus ship business too, just for good measure."

CRYPTIC: "Hey, guess what! We worked it all out, and you can now get your T6 TOS Connie...AND the T6 D7 AND the T6 T'varo! Now they're just "Temporal ships", but hey, a rose by any other name, am I right? Anyway, all you have to do is buy the R&D packs for a chance to win..."

PLAYERS: collective shitting of rage-bricks and fart-noises of disbelief "UTTER OUTRAGE!!!!!!! Just put it on the C-store! How dare you make us...buy things...and stuff!?"

CRYPTIC: "But...all you gotta do is just buy the..."

PLAYERS: "OOOUUUTTTRRRAAAGGGEEE!!!"

Folks, you weren't going to get the ship for free and they sure as hell weren't going to just sell it on the C-store by itself; not right away, anyway. Maybe they will later, well after this promo is over, but for now...make your choice. How badly do you want it?