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You'd think then that the Excelsior might get a suffix. It did prevent a Klingon/Federation was (er, with the Enterprise's help).
The Yamoto was a mistake. Look, do you think that Riker's smarter than the computer? He just made it up, to look like he knew what he was talking about.
What timeship had the suffix? The one in Future's End?
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I looked through Restoration the other day at Borders. According to the book, the newest starship to carry the name Excalibur is indeed, a Galaxy-class ship. Shelby described it as being "a normal Galaxy-class on the outside, but on the inside, well, are you familiar with the old term "hot rod" ?" As for who the captain of this ship is, you will just have to read the book and find out for yourself.
Concerning Shelby's first command, the USS Exeter, The book doesnt say what class of ship the Exeter is. I would hypothesize that its one of the larger starship classes, since there was a 10-Forward lounge and holodecks mentioned as onboard facilities. There anr only 3 ship classes I can think of with saucer sections that large: the Sovereign, Galaxy and Nebula classes. Personally, I think its a Nebula class ship.
Anyone wish to comment on this?
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It would make sense for Starfleet to give Shelby an Ambassador class ship. She has experience with those, and originally Jellico more or less wanted her to take command of the Excalibur (by ousting Calhoun).
One wonders if most of the surviving Ambassadors spent the time of DS9 undergoing upgrades similar to those performed on the Excalibur before the beginning of the New Frontier series. Perhaps they had all been more or less dismantled for repairs and upgrading, and putting them back together for the war wouldn't have been cost-efficient - the dockyards would have been better used for supporting non-dismantled ships.
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Jupiter station is made out of parts of decomissioned ships, such as Ambassador class saucers.
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