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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Well, nearly forty years of the Star Trek franchise have demonstrated that ships with common saucer designs are the exception rather than the rule. The proliferation of 1-B designs from the movie era seems to stem from the fandom (of the time)'s inability to come up with original designs - kitbashing was the rule. Only when the franchise came up with distinctly different, but canon, saucer designs to play with, did the fandom start to branch out into more original designs. That said, most people seem to believe that in the 23rd century saucers were mass produced as one design that was somehow ideal for the Fleet's needs. Among them, some conclude that the saucers HAD to be standardized, each coming with deck upon deck of the same crew quarters, science labs, and storage decks. There was even one fandom book which said that lots of the same-looking design prototypes were constructed by using mothballed Ptolemy class tugs, upgraded accordingly because they had basically not been used except as a transport. However, there's no reason not to believe that the saucers couldn't be modified internally. We see in TNG that Miranda-class ships are subclassed for any number of missions, from science vessel to transport to general combatant; fandom generally accepts that these ships, with their varying quoted crew counts and missions, would be modified internally to suit that. Jason's tug design here could have been built, or modified, for a minimal crew but a maximum internal cargo space before counting the pods - think of it like those big moving trucks with the smaller container mounted on the rig. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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