But Where Have All My Fighters Gone!?

I know. You're impressed by my image editing skills. 

My mad skillz aside, I've recently taken to playing the new Federation Heavy Escort Carrier the Armitage Class in Star Trek Online. It's tankier than most escorts, has a hanger bay, yet still packs a good deal of fire power. All-in-all a pretty tough ship, and one of my favorite ships thus far in the game. It's just fun to fly.

All that said, there is one UI element that I feel carriers are missing - a fighter status display. Once you launch six cute little Peregrine Fighters, there's no way to track whether they're still zipping around the battlefrield adding to your DPS or exploding in a fiery ball of death into the vacuum of space. Well, no way other than to constantly survey the battlefield and see if you count six Peregrines nearby. Which is nigh impossible in any battle situation, and made even worse when you have two or even three carriers in the thick of it. 

I would love to see a little UI element added to carriers when you launch fighters that displays a symbol of some sort for each fighter launched, preferably indicating their shield and health status. Something simple would be sufficient. A rectangle with the wire frame of six Peregrines, for instance. The wire frames start out darkened, similar to skills on my skill bar that can't currently be used. When you launch fighters, the images light up, and have a small green bar beneath it indicating health of the fighters' hull. When the fighter gets popped, its wire frame goes dark. A shield indicator of some sort might be nice as well, but I realize at this point I might be asking for the moon.

I know that given the nature of UI, programming, etc, none of this may be feasible. But it's one small quality of life change that would make a big difference for me and, I'm sure, many other carrier pilots.