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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] I'll second Mark's comments. The Akira/Steamrunner/Sabre-are-post-W359 camp has been a steadily-decreasing minority to the point where the people you hooked up with for [i]Starship Spotter[/i] must've been about half of all people total who still subscribe to that interpretation. (Jesus, that sounded pretentious. And they wonder why us fans get a bad rap. :) ) For what it's worth, Sternbach, Okuda and the rest of the gang have spoken on the newsgroups to the effect that their take is that the registry numbers are still sequential and that these ships were indeed around, but unseen (hint, hint ;) ), during TNG's run. They also tend to support the idea that these ships aren't gloriously overarmed monster ships but just more of the same, scaling back the torpedo launcher numbers in the DS9TM and so-on. IIRC, in Alex Jaeger's interview about designing the Akira and pals it was implied he'd envisioned them as some kind of a crew of Federation mega-battleships that had been around but not necessarily as a result of the Borg threat. Of course, Jaeger is somewhat notorious for being a "hey guns and space fighters cool" militarist when it came to Trek and most of us just sigh and scratch our heads when it comes to the thing bristling with weapons. As far as meshing with the actual onscreen canon of the Trek universe, it was strongly implied and/or said outright numerous times that the Galaxy-class was the meanest thing the Federation had to offer during the period of TNG's run. And, of course, it was an Explorer, for "Starfleet isn't a military organization" and "Starfleet doesn't build warships." The Defiant was introduced very much as the <u>only</u> exception to that rule, a starship built expressly for combat post W359, with the added implication that the whole idea of building a dedicated fleet of Borg-busting vessels never happened because the Defiant was so problematic. The Intrepid has certainly never, ever been intended as a Borg-buster. That contradicts pretty much everything that the ship was envisioned as by its designers and the creative staff. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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