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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mirror-Amasov: [QB] The location of Starfleet's vessels and fleets has been a mystery to me, not only the "only-ship-in-sector"-device from the movies, but also the large fleets of vessels vs. only single vessels in DS9. It makes sense to have ships out on their own for deep space exploration, but defending borders etc. makes a lot more sense in small groups, while at the same time there is no reason to move around in large fleets because you can easily out-maneuver them (unless you're preparing an immediate attack, which obviously wasn't the case in most situations). The point I'm trying to make is this: Even though it would make sense to scatter the fleet, have ships from different locations meet at Vulcan, and not send all ships stationed at earth to Vulcan, Starfleet rarely acts that way. All (!) other ships in one location (the Laurentian system, for whatever reason) is a clear indicator of that. Naturally, I would assume that Starfleet had other ships around, patrol craft and so on, plus those at earth plus maybe some at Vulcan (aren't there any starbases or shipyards or whatever at Vulcan?), so a lot ships around to draw to Vulcan. But that's obviously not how Starfleet works. So in Star Trek-terms, having 7 ships (or 8) go from Earth to Vulcan and no other ships around makes more sense. (We could call it the Borg variation of that "only-ship-in-sector"-device, as they did have fleets around - only to wipe them out to make the enemy look more dangerous and have the E arrive just in time to save the day). By the way: What's up with Vulcan anyway? Don't they have any defense systems? Even Betazed could stand its ground for a couple of hours against the Dominion (okay, I know, you really can't compare a Dominion fleet to a mad Romulan's possibly Borg-enhanced evil planet-killing mining vessel of doom from the future (TM), but, you know: they've got to have *something*. These guys have been travelling the galaxy for hundreds of years and not a century ago seriously kicked some Andorian ass. What happened?) And off-topic: Did anyone else thik the 10,000-survivors-estimate was somewhat... low? 6 billion people on Vulcan an 10,000 survive? IT's a space-faring civilization, part of an interstellar alliance, with colonies, outposts and starships. Even if not a single Vulcan escaped the planet, there have to be more than 10,000 around. The US has a population of about 300 million. If Nero would wipe it out, and going by that ratio, it would mean that only 500 US citizens would survive (= be outside the US or being able to escape). That's quite unlikely. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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