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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] So, its been twelve years since TNG ended with "All Good Things...", and offering us a supposed glimpse into tecnology that is arguably forthcoming in the TNG time frame. In theory, the following will happen: -Someone thought it would be a good idea to strap a third nacelle, BFP cannon, and extra whatnots onto a pristine Galaxy-class ship. -They've either mastered transwarp, or it's good enough to warrant recalibrating the warp scale again. Tooling along at Warp 13 is no big deal for even older starships like the Pasteur. -Which rules out what the third nacelle is for, apparently. -Installing a cloaking device on Federation starships is also no big deal. This is more a political change than a technological one, but still, it's fun to rationalize that the technology itself was never a real hurdle for the Feds. There are some who think that the tech is dubious at best, given the whole thing could be a Q fantasy. However, at least part of it is borne out as the Q-less Voyager finale at least re-uses the uniforms, implying that the AGT future is at least possible. Now, granted Picard and company arguably did something different with Soran and the Klingon sisters in at least one timeline that resulted in the Enterprise-D surviving the unlikely fate we saw in "Generations", paving the way to uglification two decades later. Likewise, the reuse of certain pasties on the Venture as seen in DS9 implies that at least SOME refitting is happening here and there. But as we know now at least, retrofitting old starships like we saw in AGT generally doesn't happen in Trek - Excelsiors and Mirandas are essentially unchanged on the outside for decades. Perhaps it's limited to the few expensive Explorer ships? The Ambassador went through radical, if relatively unbreaking to the silhouette, refits in its two variants, and of coruse we know about the Constitutions. So, the question today is: given what we know now about Trek tech compared to a decade ago, would the AGT Enterprise-D have still been feasible? If the franchise could be seen in-context in fifteen years, could we concievably see AGT-type GCS emabarrassing all who serve aboard them? Mark [EDITTED for grammar and accuracy] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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