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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] I don't think it's a matter of the NX-01 being made of sterner stuff, just that it's a matter of necessity. Why doesn't a TNG era ship soldier on with hull breaches and damage to systems? Simple - it doesn't have to, because by that time there is an extensive network of starbases to support the fleet. You get badly damaged, you head off to the nearest base and get yourself patched up. The NX-01 had no choice in the matter, especially when it was in the Delphic Expanse and far from any remotely friendly races. It was a matter of continue on with massive damage, or fail in the mission to save Earth, not that it necessarily tougher than later Starfleet ships. Ships in the TNG era have suffered hull breaches and kept going - in Best of Both Worlds the [i]Enterprise[/i] suffers a breach to deck 36 and keeps going - they are even able to control engineering functions from the bridge and keep going while (I hope, anyway!) repairs are carried out. Voyager has hull breach after hull breach in its time and always manages to make repairs. Granted, that's more a function of the big magic reset button (tm) but in the show, it's got to be as a result of repairs done on the fly. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [qb]Based on the timeline-per-construction chart I made for my project, I have [i]Lakota[/i] built in 2332 or 2333. [/qb][/QUOTE]So she is certainly not a new ship by the time of DS9 - roughly about 40 years old. I know in that episode that the [i]Defiant[/i] crew seemed surprised that the Lakota had received upgraded defense systems but there is no reason to think that this wasn't a fleetwide upgrade by this point, or at least an upgrade given to all ships under Leyton's influence. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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