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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I submit that in Trek, how old a design looks is independent of its actual age. The Galaxy-class "family" is ample proof of this - we conclusively have mini-Galaxy clones running aorund years, and often decades, before the Galaxy herself. At the same time, we know that there are other paradigms of starship design that continue to go on long past other, different kinds. The Sovereign, Steamrunner, Akira et. al. are simply part of a different design family that predates, or runs concurrently, with that of the Galaxy paradigm. What's wrong with that? It's not apples and oranges in starship design; if anything, it's BMWs and Mercedes. Both made by the same state, both having the same numbers of engines and nacelles/wheels. But are they the same? Nope. It's just that for whatever reason we never saw these other designs, just like we've never seen the Bradbury or Sequoia or Wambundu class starships. Someone has also mentioned before that there's also the fanboy factor, however small, that refuses to accept that anything cooler than something that's come before can actually *be* older than that something. I'm not saying that the propoents of the Akira = new suffer from that, but outside of these forums anyway it's one reason the sentiment lingers on... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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