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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Contrary to what CaptainMike says, I feel that Starfleet is in the hind end of receiving high tech in some respects. Militaries in general tend to be, in the real world. The state of art of communications and computing devices in the military is typically abysmal compared with what the civilians have available. There's a much greater need for standardization and independence from complex fixed support infrastructures, and then there's a double inertia of manufacturing the sort of robust stuff that has no civilian market value, and accepting NIH tech in general. I guess holotech is also far more advanced in the civilian world than aboard starships or starbases, and Starfleet is only now realizing the full possibilities - holo-decoys, training simulations etc. This is a technology that is obviously commercially attractive, and less obviously militarily so. Transporting could also fall into this category. If at first you needed a machine the size of Pentagon to transport a person, you'd use it dirtside and possibly forget about shipboard applications for a goodly while - but you *would* use it dirtside, because teleportation is commercially attractive once safe. When starships would get their first teleporters, their development would probably branch into completely different directions, creating "tanks" instead of "sedans". There could be later convergence if civilians found "SUV" style transporters perversely attractive, but in general, a civilian transporter would be a completely different beast. The military would have no use for the "sedan" transporter, and might neglect technologies related to "sedan-like" transporter operations. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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