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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] The [i]Excelsior[/i]-Class was built to last longer. Look at the [i]Galaxy[/i]-Class -- an operational lifeline of a century! Also, production of the [i]Excelsior[/i]-Class may well have continued for several decades, so the ships of that class we see in TNG weren't built until decades after Star Trek VI. You also left out the Oberth-Class, which is still in service, and the Miranda-Class. Most probably, the Constitution-Class was stopped production at some point prior to the TOS movies. When Starfleet began running low on Constitution-Class ships, they decided to retire the -Class in favor of current designs still in production. That is just a theory. But honestly, if employing design-upgrades (the TNG [i]Hood[/i] could be Excelsior-Variant XII for all we know, in terms of interior layout, warp engines, etc.), refits, etcetra, the basic [i]class[/i] design of any starship could continue for a very long time. And with a large an area as the United Federation of Planets has to protect and explore, it makes sense to employ only those ships which can last for the longest possible time. Klingons have several classes of "birds of prey" -- in Generations, Worf identifies Lursa and B'tor's BOP as an "older class" with a defective plasma coil -- this tends to hint that although the BOPs share a common hull, they are constantly being redesigned and uprated. Also, we saw in [i]Redemption[/i] that Klingon military forces are controlled by powerful "families": they might not choose to discard an old ship still capable of fighting even if it hits the century mark. [This message has been edited by JeffKardde (edited March 13, 2001).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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