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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I have a forty-year window between major classes in my timeline, with varying numbers of supplementary classes in between. Not counting development time, we have the [i]Constitution[/i] class becoming viable circa 2245, the [i]Excelsior[/i] class becoming viable circa 2285, and the [i]Galaxy[/i] class becoming viable pretty close to 2365. So slotting the [i]Ambassador[/i] in at 2325 made good sense to me. And it also means the next major class would be coming along around 2405. The [i]Sovereign[/i] class, to me, is a bad choice for an [i]Enterprise[/i]. It's a placeholder, a new Heavy Cruiser that Picard takes out to explore because tht's who he is. The class only came along five years or so after the [i]Galaxy[/i] class entered service, and -- I feel -- was a rush job to complete in order to have it available to fight the Borg. In between those forty-year cycles, I have new batches of the current/previous major class at the twenty-year marks, depending on viability. So a round of refits and newbuilds for the [i]Constitution[/i] class in 2265, some [i]Enterprise[/i] class (yep, I still say that) newbuilds circa 2285, and maybe again around 2305 (the one that was at Wolf 359...? ;) ). Similarly the [i]Excelsior[/i] class in 2305 and 2325, with a big building surge around 2345 for the increasing state of turmoil locally. We really weren't due for anything until 2385, but the Borg, the Dominion, the Cardassians... That forced things a little. Early completion of Flight-I [i]Galaxy[/i] spaceframes, early introduction of the [i]Sovereign[/i] class (and making the new [i]Enterprise[/i] one of those, to boot), rapid refit program for some post-[i]Ambassador[/i], pre-[i]Galaxy[/i] classes*... --Jonah [*Yes, I still stubbornly cling to the belief that the [i]Akira[/i], [i]Saber[/i], [i]StReamrunner[/i], and [i]Norway[/i] classes are recent but old enough to be cheaply made/refit -- more cheaply than another [i]New Orleans[/i] or [i]Springfield[/i], say. And not to the same standard as the newer [i]Intrepid[/i] or [i]Prometheus[/i] classes (why they all have the same "unfinished" look as the [i]Sovereign[/i]).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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