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Thankfully, I shook my head in disgust and avoided that after reading the premise on the back o the book.
Was that Vornholt?
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Just going back to the topic at hand - why would a crashed ship land in neat sections?
I see no problem with at least the SPACE FRAME being assembled down below and then hoisted into orbit - then they fit the computer core as per the Tech guide.
Wasn't there also a 'laying of the first' bit of the Enterprise ceremony mentioned in that timeline - that sounds more like a planet-side thing then up in space.
Also a starship in those drydocks without any sort of support for the individual bits of the frame would have beams floating everywhere - when you have the actual idea of the ship up there - it's easier for a tractor beam to just keep the whole ship inside the structure.
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They would have crashed the ship anywhere else on the planet and then brought the pieces there for study. No need to perform the autopsy at the crime scene.
There's no need for anything to be "floating around" freely at an orbital drydock- between magnetics, replicators and basic force-fields, it would all be tightly controlled. Plus, orbital factories could produce the components, then ease them several thousand clicks to their construction destinations with minimal power expense (and lugging several million tonnes of spacerame into orbit is a huuuge waste). Not to mention that metal fabrication/bonding in a oxygen-free environment yeilds a much stronger metal.
Besides, if the Cardassians can manage spacebourne shipyards, the UFP sure as fuck can too.
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Which brings me back to the idea - that they are slowly dismantling that Galaxy Class... maybe it had an inherent flaw that they are investigating.
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Well, considering we've sen 2 blow up from warp core breaches (3 if you include the Odyssey, but that had bits of another ship in the warp core at the time, which can't be healthy), I'd have a look. It could be the star fleet museum. Maybe they have to land the ships as they can't afford artificial gravity.... Lawn ornament for the seriously important?
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Mabye it's a monument to W359. A park outside the shipyards to honor the 10,000 killed in that battle.
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Only the general shape would be of a nacelle (or prahaps they made the building's frame from actual wreckage), so they could be walk-through museums or even house holographic representations of each slain starfleet victim.
That would be an errie monument- having to actually see and walk past the fallen....
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Then why put it on the ground? There are numerous references to the Starfleet Museum, which has presumably intact (if not spaceworthy) exhibits of whole starships. Why deliberately build a museum of a modern, in-service starship design?
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