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um.. we're inferring an awful lot about the three lines that were ever spoken about the Trieste.. i don't know how these thought pop into your heads.
> The Trieste was a starship.. just because it wasn't the flagship, we cannot rightfully determine its abilities based on that fact.. Everyone in 11001001 (<-eight digits, dude).. said the Trieste was 'too slow' to catch the Galaxy-class 1701-D. Here's a list of other ships that are too slow to catch the E-D: NX-01 the Enterprise the E-A the E-B the E-C the Excelsior.
see, by your logic, that means that all these ships are slow, impotent? no.. all it means is that they arent as fast as the E-D.
Now, saying that the Trieste wouldnt last long in a hazardous situation is pure idiocy, considering that we know it is a Federation starship.. Starfleet does have a knack for losing large capital ships, but usually only when there is a large phallic probe or space amoeba involved, it doesnt habitually send incapable ships into impossible situations for no reason.. there's no data to support this comment.
Data served on the Trieste because he was a Starfleet officer, and that was a Federation starship. We have no idea where the Trieste's missions were or what its capabilities were, except that that fell short of the E-D, and that narrows nothing down, because, when the E-D was commissioned, every single ship in Starfleet fell short of its abilities.
And Data was far from a valuable form of intelligence to Starfleet at the time. Considering his near-uselessness during season 1 TNG, i would say that the 26 years he spent on the Trieste and other assignments were time well spent learning the role of an officer on a starship.. by Encounter at Farpoint, Data was a reliable worker and manned a post ably, but he lacked many of the abilities he would gain during his tenure on the Enterprises, the ability to command a crew, interact with humans, participate in political situations..
Data wasnt sent out as a waste of his abilities, he didnt have those abilities yet.
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