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In the Dominion War, I think that Starfleet after a battle goes through the debris to look for salvagable ships and parts. For instance lets say that Miranda A had its roll bar and warp nacelles destroyed. Miranda B has most of her primary hull destroyed but majority of the roll bar and the warp nacelles are intact. They take the these nacelles and roll bar and place it Miranda A. Thus increasing the repair rate of this ship and bringing a ship back to the front lines.
I do not support the theory of complete kitbashing like it is supported in the DS9 Tech manual. If you can place parts of a Excelsior class on top of anaother then you can use those parts to replace the ones to put it on the ships that are specifically designeed for those parts. Not like those wieird Intrepid Maquis hybrid.
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The do that in real life too. There was a C-141 that had a really bad landing somewhere, I can't remember where, but it wrecked one side of the plane. They left it at that base for a long time until one day another -141 semi-crashed and messed up the other side. They figured they could just cut and paste and have a whole plane. They did and that plane was flying around for quite some time.
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Well, it may have flown around for a while, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to be in it... *L*
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The USS Wisconsin (US NAVY, not Starfleet), is the longest Iowa Class battleship because it haad to have its bow replaced after a collision in the late 40's. The bow on the Wisconsin was part of the unfinished USS Kentucky, and makes the Wisconsin 15 feet longer due to how it was attached.
This idea is hardly unique to the military, too.
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Yes! Take for example, when I found a bird with a broken wing... Instead of taking it to the RSPCA, I just found another bird with one wing and stuck the two together! *Grin*
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The Wisconsin's bow came from the uncompleted Kentucky.
In fact using the savlaged parts does save more money than to rebuild it. I don't think the air force would let something that was crashed and fixed without an inspection. So it would be safe enough to be in it.
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I know a guy who built himself a pickup truck out of two trucks, one that had a crushed front and one that had a crushed rear, and it works fine.
The Magellan Venus orbiter was built from spare parts of other probes. So, I think, were several other probes, none of which failed. (as contrasted to the Mars Polar Lander and Climate Orbiter, both new designs)
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Yeah, all this 'kitbashing' done in the military goes through all sorts of inspections. And parts are swaped out all the time on planes. It's not that big a deal.
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