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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I think they are modular in the sense that given types of rooms for given decks will have similar footprints, and that you can arrange the internal volume of each deck from a handy catalogue of preset templates, and then link it all together with chunks of turboshaft and corridor. That said, the internal volume of a [i]Saladin[/i] HAS to have a completely different layout from that of a [i]Constitution[/i], simply because of everything the Connie has in its secondary hull that the Sallie is lacking. Bear in mind that even with the "not wanting to confuse viewers" BS, we still had an [i]Enterprise[/i] (shorthand for post-refit [i]Constitution[/i] so I don't have to keep typing the word "refit") fighting at Wolf 359. I don't think there was any clear demarcation of "pre-refit" and "post-refit". I am more of the opinion that [i]Constutution[/i]s were cycled in for refits as needs and patrol schedules allowed. And they'd be upgraded where possible and viable. By the time of the Big Refit of the [i]Enterprise[/i], I doubt any [i]Constitution[/i]s were identical to each other any more, and we'd have some not-quite-TMP-looking ships like fandom's "[i]Constitution[/i] (II)" Phase 2-derived design kicking around immediately prior. I think the [i]Miranda[/i] was already flying around in the 2260s with more-or-less its TWOK appearance, albeit with different warp engines and a different bridge ([i]Soyuz[/i]-style?). Then the [i]Decatur[/i] and [i]Belknap[/i] were used as testbeds for the TMP-style warp engines. And when the [i]Enterprise[/i] went in, she got all of the systems upgrades those classes had pioneered -- new hull materials, new warp engines, new reactor design, new phasers and torpedoes, new computers, new bridge, new impulse engines, et cetera. By the time she was finished, she'd had more quantitative and more qualitative refitting than any other [i]Constitution[/i] thus far, and warranted a new class designation (until Starfleet streamlined subclasses a decade or so later). That amounted to a new lease on life for a thirty-year-old design, and whilst refit [i]Constitution[/i]s were likely still phased out after only a couple-decade extension of their service lives, newbuild [i]Enterprise[/i]s probably continued to serve actively until the Cardassian Wars of the 2340s, and even later in Reserve fleets. :D --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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