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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The reason why the Bird of Prey remains in service after so many years is probably simply a cultural difference. Feds think that their ships have to be modern in order to be effective - and for them, modern means "no part of the ship is older than a given number of years, by DESIGN". Klingons think the same - except for them, modern means "no part of the ship is older than a given number of years, by CONSTRUCTION". The basic design may remain unchanged for centuries if not for millennia, while old ships rot away and new ones are built to the same design to replace them. When enemy technological advances make it impossible for one ship of the original design to defeat the enemy, the Klingons do not design a new ship (at least not as fast as the Feds) - they simply build TWO ships of the original design, and destroy the enemy with those. Then they build four ships, or ten, or add another disruptor cannon with slightly more range, or increase the yield or number of torps carried by some fraction, or upgrade the shield generators... That may be cheaper for them, or more warriorlike, or just plain easier. They probably laugh at the idiotic Feds who waste so much resources in R&D. The Feds probably do this only when backed up against a wall. Big wars might do that. So with the Klingon cold war, the Feds were stuck with the Constitutions (and possibly corresponding lighter but unseen designs like Saladins) and built plenty of those because they worked. When there was no war, the Feds built multiple ship classes, low in numbers but each more advanced than the predecessor. And when wars again threatened in the 24th century (perhaps because of UFP expansion and "thinning out" of the fleet), Starfleet again had to mass-produce the designs that worked adequately at the time (the heavy Excelsior and light Miranda and later perhaps the plentiful Steamrunner and Saber). Starfleet seriously disliked doing so, though, and went for more diverse designs as soon as it could afford to do so. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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