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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TonyB: [QB] Greetings Fellow Shipmates, I'm new here - actually, I've been lurking reading the postings for the last 6 months or so. I'm looking forward to discussing starship design with all of you. I've been reading this thread and have some comments: Would you consider the possibility that the refit Constitutions were retired purely for political reasons? That seems more feasible, given the fact that other ship classes are still operating (with upgrades I assume). Regarding the Ent having flaws, I have to admit that the writers think the ship has some. It has bothered me that the Ent had problems when it was supposed to be the flagship of Starfleet. At the time of ST:TMP, the Ent withstood Vger's attack. (At least the 1st salvo). Yet in the later movies, the ship has serious operational problems. I also read in this post that the Miranda is not able to stand up to the Constitutions in combat. I'm not so sure about that. I've read that the Reliant was a heavy frigate and ST2:WOK certainly supports this. If you recall, the Reliant fired 2 types of phasers: the "regular" thin red line type (which came from the button type phaser emitters) and the wide white type (which came from the tips of the roll-bar mounted tip phaser emitters). I've heard this phaser referred to as a mega-phaser or phaser cannon. That phaser punched directly through the hull of the Ent! It was certainly more powerful than the standard type which cut through the hull much more slowly. As far as operational lifetimes of starships and whether or not the Yorktown was renamed Ent, I will say that the people in charge of "canon" (how I loathe that word) really screwed things up. I've read at least 3 different "offical" versions of what ship the Ent was supposedly renamed from. You could refit a starship, or anything else for that matter, for as long as you wanted. I would assume that for whatever reason, Starfleet retired most of the Ent types and kept the others current through upgrades & refits. One last thought: the current revision of what is "official" starship design irritates me to no end. That is how a lot of the starship continuity problems developed. I really want to know why the current producers/designers have decided to just ignore official material? Whew. That was a lot for my 1st post. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Regards, Tony [/QB][/QUOTE]
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