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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] There are plenty of reasons why a starship could be considered obsolete enough to be decommissioned far before its intended end-of-life. Ritten already mentioned the USN's battleships; the aftermath of World War I would be a better example. The USN had a shitload of battleships and heavy cruisers on hand, many of which were barely ten or fifteen years old�but many were scrapped for political reasons to adhere to the artificial mass quotas imposed on each of the major world navies. Something similar could've happened with the 'D. For example, the [i]Galaxy[/i] class was developed at the absolute height of the Federation's confidence, pacifism, and power. The attitude was "bigger is always better," and there was no one to stand in their way. Maybe, in addition to the various engine and weapon enhancements, there were major developments in starship automation (like that apparently used on the [i]Prometheus[/i]), requiring far fewer people to crew. Starfleet would absolutely prefer to operate less personnel-intensive ships, and retrofitting such a giant like the 'D would probably be too "expensive" in terms of resources, time, and effort. Also, one could speculate that the big Triple Threat of the Borg, the Dominion, and the Klingons would accelerate the trend towards more numerous smaller, heavily-armed ships, with a small handful of big battleships with really big guns to take out the large enemy ships. As for the third nacelle... maybe it was added for redundancy? Maybe it was added because the existing nacelles couldn't support the more intense warp field to make it to WF13. Who knows? I'm pulling most of this out of my ass, though it sounds mostly reasonable to me. The simple fact is that we have no clue just exactly why, other than BILC: "Because It Looks Cool!" [/QB][/QUOTE]
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