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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I also suspect the E-B was being sailed around due to political or commercial pressure: the Excelsior project might not have been in much favor if the NX-2000 indeed had humiliatingly failed in demonstrating transwarp, her supposed raison d'etre. Too many promises may have been made, regarding schedule and performance of follow-on vessels of the class. This could also tie in to why the E-A was retired so early. If the Excelsiors could not be transwarp superships, then Starfleet might have begun marketing them as Constitution successors. Constitutions had a high public profile, and the names Enterprise and Kirk had an even higher one. The smart move for Starfleet would be to declare all the Constitutions as outdated and insist that they be replaced by the Excelsiors *now*, thus justifying the project already underway. Naming the first post-transwarp Excelsior the Enterprise and dragging in Kirk to do a PR tour would further help market the idea that these ships were the rightful inheritors of the Constitution fame. As for the Yorktown theory, that ship's crew was left in mortal danger when we last saw them. Perhaps there wasn't a happy end to the story, and Starfleet towed home a big starship-shaped coffin? The ship could have been renamed to scare away the ghosts in any case, and the need to find something to reward Kirk with provided extra incentive. And Starfleet probably wasn't all that happy to reward a mutineer, despite the public pressure, so giving him a former deathtrap after a half-hearted refit might have evoked grim smiles on some high-ranking faces... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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