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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] The 190,000-ton mass figure can be found in the earliest draft of the Star Trek outline, alongside that old crew complement of 203 from "The Cage". That's -way- before the Enterprise's design was nailed down in hundreds of sketches - Jefferies only worked with a vague idea of a 200-foot (61m) ship, as suggested by Roddenberry. The crew complement was changed to 430 following the upscaling, but the mass number stuck around. The figures on ships in the DS9TM are based on Rick Sternbach's 4.5 million ton estimate of the Galaxy's mass, which in turn was based on the ship's volume x density figures of present day spacecraft. As such, the refit Constitution designs seem to have a mass approaching that of the Intrepid. Bearing in mind the fact that the earliest figure didn't apply to the final Enterprise design, the question remains open to discussion. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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