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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Red Admiral: [QB] I hate this ship, and whilst very bored and tired at work this morning bizarre theories on the Yeager came to mind. It's a real ship, so there has to be an explanation somewhere. And I know we're flogging a dead horse here, but I like closure damn it! And this Frankenstein won't go away. So here goes, if you have the patience see if you can get your head around all this. I'm still trying... This is a kitbash. It has to be. You can clearly see a conventional Intrepid, but with something entirely unconventional, almost alien sitting beneath the saucer. It's one type of ship fused onto another. The question is what, and why?? I call both the Yeager and Elkins 'Intrepid Class'. They are Intrepid Class ships, variants thereof, like the multiple (and in some ways quite different) Nebula variants, but those are all still called Nebula Class. Perhaps the Yeager and Elkins were only one-off ships, experimental Cruisers, kind of proto-Intrepids that were rushed into service during the Dominion war campaign (as the DS9 TM says). They obviously have their own special area of expertise in the fleet, I have no idea what, but there are elements with both of these ships that are unorthodox and atypical of regular starships. Ignoring the actual 'kit components' combined for the models, the actual Starfleet ships must have a purpose behind how and why they exist... Going by the registry number of the Yeager, being NCC-65674 it implies that it is older than the Voyager and indeed, the class prototype, USS Intrepid. This could have interesting ramifications. Being chiefly an Intrepid Class ship, the Yeager was most likely around some time before the USS Intrepid, perhaps by a 7 or 8 years, for instance. There are two possibilities why, as I see it: 1. The Yeager is a pre-Intrepid prototype study-model starship, built only once as one possible direction for the Planform SV-65 Intrepid Program to take. It failed, for whatever reason, and its evolution moved along a different path - and maybe that's where the Elkins would come in, which might have carried the provisional registry number of NX-74121, (later NCC 74121). 2. The Yeager is older starship class from the 2350's. Let's call it 'XYZ Class'. During the Dominion war Starfleet investigated what older starships they could recommission to help with the war effort. Starship production was split 50/50- on both new ships currently under construction, and the refurbishing, and weapons upgrades of already existing ships. A good number were tried and trusted starships, such as Miranda Class, that had existed in great numbers, but served today only as Training Vessels, or lay inert at starbases and surplus depots. These, and some other ships were recommissioned (some with their original names, which clashed with newer starships that had taken their names, such as the Excelsior and Nebula Class Lexingtons). With weapons upgraded as best as could be done, with the time and resources available, and skeleton crews installed, these recommissioned ships rushed to the frontline to replenish fleet numbers. (This is perhaps in the same vein as the Constellation Class Hathaway - decommissioned, inert, virtually obsolete, but still space-worthy, and with some effort and time could have been recommissioned, but it was peace time at this point in TNG, and there was no need -although they were beginning to prepare for possible Borg incursions). So, XYZ Class, being an older class of ship, and damaged to a certain degree (but with Starfleet desperate to salvage any ship they could), was reconstituted with the spaceframe of an existing half-built Intrepid saucer, perhaps one of a discarded prototype saucer left over from the Intrepid program, but was still deemed useful and space-worthy. With no chance of being constructed as a fully operational Intrepid Class in itself, an operational, but jury-rigged secondary hull structure was installed, simply to get another warp-capable, phaser firing ship into service to take its place in the fleet. So the one-off USS Yeager and USS Elkins were born. I wonder what awaits me at work tomorrow.... ah yes, the Curry. I'll turn my attention to that during my tea break. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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