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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Red Admiral: [QB] Capainmike, the Challenger class didn't look at all like a Connie, it was a Galaxy variant, and a study model for it exists. Unfortunately I'm late for this debate, and everything seems to have been well answered so far, so kudos to you all. But I might add a small theory to further embellish the reasoning behind Shelby's line- 'the fleet will be back up in year', although it has been covered already. This is an exceprt from a faq section on my site: Being centre stage to the Federation one would think Earth would have a great deal of defensive measures in place - hopefully more so than that feeble array of small fighters that emerged from Jovian orbit to intercept the Borg Cube in 'The Best of Both Worlds'! So I think it's highly sensible for them to employ a specialised unit of Starships, perhaps mostly made up of older vessels, but well armed, and with skeleton crews but with the means to supply full compliments to make up the numbers at short notice. Such crews could reside or operate from outposts and scrambling stations in and round the Sol area, and can be called upon in an emergency to man these specially deployed interception forces. Such reasoning regarding the use of these older vessels, used only in extreme situations may explain why most of the ships known destroyed at Wolf 359 were in some respects lesser known classes with older designations such as Cheyenne, Rigel, Challenger, Springfield, Freedom, Apollo, Niagara, etc. So, if such a First Fleet or 'Home Fleet' exists, Shelby may have been referring to this fleet when describing the loss of 39 vessels and that it would take a year to 'get (this fleet) back up'. It may also explain her obvious familiarity with the ships of this First Fleet, as she seemed to be able to easily identify them from a mass of burning debris from the Enterprise viewscreen as they cruised through the battlefield aftermath. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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