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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Tidbit: The so-called Yeager-class first appeared in the DS9 episode "Ties of Blood and Water" -- which was only a couple of episodes after Cardassia joined the Dominion. So these "kitbash" designs started appearing long before the war started. Here's my take: Starfleet realized that it was going to be very short on numbers very early on in the conflict -- once Cardassia joined the Dominion, it was clear that they'd have enough industrial capacity to build and support a massive fleet, not to mention any reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant. So Starfleet started building as many ships as possible, to get enough units available to adequately cover the border regions. I've thought up a couple of circumstances. I admit that the logic is a bit strained, but I blame it on the modelmaker idiots who created such monstrosities in the first place. Yeager-class -- This design came from an Intrepid-class ship that was in the Sector 001 battle and was partially destroyed. The saucer was left mostly intact by the blast that destroyed the aft section, and so to get the ship back in service, a shipyard created a quick-and-dirty substitute secondary hull, and the newly christened Yeager (named for the Saber-class ship destroyed in the battle) entered service as a patrol cruiser. Shelley-class -- The Excelsior is a pretty old design. I'll bet that there were plenty of decommissioned hulks lying around, and Starfleet would try to reactivate a lot of these. The Excelsior-class USS Curry (NCC-45617) was one of these decommissioned or damaged ships. Old nacelles were fitted directly to the saucer, and the engineering hull was converted to a massive cargo space or troop transport or whatever. (But NOT a fighter carrier. The Galaxy-class ships with their massive main shuttlebays should have done that.) Rather than repaint and recommission the ship, they relaunched the hull with the same old Curry name/number. Yeah yeah... this is stuff pulled out of my @$$. But how else can you explain these ugly monsters? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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