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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I'd think a location close to Earth is actually preferable: Kirk would want to dump Khan ASAP, and the spot where the supervillain was picked up was necessarily close to Earth, considering the supposed low speed of his sleeper ship. The Ceti Alpha system could remain unvisited (and so poorly charted that a missing planet doesn't raise any eyebrows in ST2) because there simply isn't anything of interest there, Save for a habitable planet, of course - but those are thirteen in a dozen in the Trek galaxy. As for how the [i]Intrepid[/i] sends people up or down... Perhaps she doesn't. Her mission profile simply might not include any sort of planetary stuff, be it exploration, exploitation, SAR, or ground combat. We're spoiled by having seen so many multipurpose ships, but the pre-ENT era Starfleet might have decided to pour its meager resources mainly into effective space-to-space combatants, with the engineers chanting "not a pound for space-to-ground". A space-only ship could be seen as a great technological advance in comparison with the older, clearly planet-oriented lifting-body ships, even if later experience would cause the designers to backpedal a bit. Or then there's a division of labor there, with the deltas handling all planetary stuff. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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