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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I'm sure Doug wasn't thinking of precise size or scale when he built the thing, and it's really tough to judge deck count or size based on the "windows" we see. However, if you look at the middle of the saucer, IF the rows of windows there could be analogous to a more typical saucer section, then just the middle part could be twice as wide as a Galaxy's saucer..! The outer windows could be portholes to large internal areas like parks or communal areas. In one of my favorite anime series "Macross" (et.al.), humanity is nearly extinguished when the Earth's surface was basically destoyed during an alien attack. Knowing there were plenty more hostile threats out there, the surviving population decides to embark on a program of colonization, building a series of ever-larger colony fleets with populations up to ten million. Some would find planets to colonize, while others would be cruising space for decades, but all with the knowledge that if Earth were ever to be destroyed, humanity would survive out there. I can see the Enterprise-J as an extension of that school of thought. We know that folks the Borg, the Dominion, and even the Xindi had plans of destroying the human species for one reason or another. In the case of the Xindi, we know that if they had succeeded they would have continued a campaign of finding human worlds and destroying them. So, Starfleet extends the idea of bringing families on starships to purposefully building a ship to carry a representation of the Federation as a whole, such that if the next alien attack succeeds, the Federation would survive to start again. How Galactica. :p Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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