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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] (Timo, don't mean to sound insulting here, but it seems pretty boneheaded to move this starship-deployment thread out of the Starships forum. :p ) How many times have we complained about the Enterprise being "the only ship in the sector"? And how many times has that sector been Earth itself? TMP, TWOK, TFF, Generations... Special effects problems aside, I think it's perfectly reasonable to see so many of the bigger ships in "Endgame." Remember how many Galaxy-class ships we saw during DS9? The ones that are supposedly little more than hollow flying hulls packed with weaponry? I think it makes lots of sense that several of these were sitting at Utopia Planitia getting "filled out" when the emergency call came through. Going back to the Cardassian Wars, Timo makes an interesting point there. I've always gotten the impression that the Cardassians were always a second-rate power anyway and were little more than a minor distraction to the Federation. The only reason the conflict was called a "war" was because there was hardly any other conflict going on at the same time in the years leading up to TNG. I know this is an alternate timeline, but you could also consider "Yesterday's Enterprise" as an example of Starfleet's unpreparedness. Obviously they were in serious trouble and losing badly to the Klingons -- part of that probably had something to do with the explorer/military dichotomy. (Yeah yeah, I know they were at war for 20+ years, so we didn't get much hint of their attitudes at the start of the war.) [/QB][/QUOTE]

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