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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] I rewatched "Piece of the Action"; the only info gleaned from that episode is that 1) The Horizon reached the planet, messed it up, left, and was "lost" with all of its crew aboard (the episode doesn't explain what happened to it). 2) The Horizon didn't have subspace radio (according to Kirk), and sent a conventional radio message that took 100 years to reach the Federation (it was received "last month" relative to the time of the episode). 3) Kirk says (paraphrasing) that Sigma Iotia is in the far reaches of the galaxy, indicating that we're talking about a starbase or a subspace beacon receiving the message, suggesting a distance of much more than 100 light-years from Earth. I also checked the script for "Power Play": 1) There hasn't been a Daedalus in service for 172 years. 2) The Essex, NCC-173 with a crew of 229, under the overall command (in that sector) of Admiral Uttan Narsu of Starbase 12, disappeared "over two hundred years ago." 3) The Essex sent out a subspace beacon, so it did have the radio. The Horizon was probably fulfilling the same kind of mission as Kirk's ship, albeit with more primitive tech and without the Prime Directive. We might interpret Kirk's line about the lacking subspace radio as an error -- maybe Kirk was informed that the Horizon didn't use subspace radio (it was damaged?), and rationalized it with a vague recollection of history. The simplest explanation is that the Horizon is a ship newer than the NX-01, launched a few years after the founding of the Federation and sent out on an independent, long-range exploration mission. Alternatively, it could be an older Earth ship that was refitted and adopted into the new Starfleet. It's a weird thing, though, that the subspace beacon of the Essex remained undetected for 200 years, and that the moon where it crashed is referred to as "unexplored", despite the suggestion that there was a starbase in the sector 200 years ago. Or maybe Starbase 12 was responsible for all the unexplored sectors as well. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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