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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Difficult to say if the plaque was changed, but at least the last digit of the registry was, from 8 to 5... Personally, I'm not happy with the Nobel and the Pasteur sharing a class. Who would send a hospital ship to perform a SAR mission, as in "Interface"? Hospital ships probably would have inferior sensors and inferior speed, hampering the search efforts. They would also be poorly equipped to cope with whatever had resulted in the loss of the Hera in the first place. The only plus side would be if the Hera was found relatively intact and there were massive yet rescueable casualties aboard - then the medical facilities of the hospital ship would come in handy. My favorite explanation would be if the Pasteur was of a Hope subclass of the Olympic class, almost as extensively modified from the original Olympic design as the Soyuz was from the Miranda design. Perhaps the original Olympic even had a saucer hull instead of a sphere..? At the very least, the Olympic should have been optimized for a different mission featuring more plausible SAR capabilities. Hmmm... OTOH, perhaps the definition of a hospital ship in Trek does include superfast speed and high-class sensors? Perhaps the idea is not to deliver a hospital to the battlefield, but to use the ship as a combined SAR chopper and ambulance that collects casualties from all over the battlefield, AND then treats them. Such a concept is alien to today's navies, since ships are too slow to act as ambulances, and hospital ships are too cumbersome to perform SAR. Plus, having SAR-enabling sensors would be uncomfortably close to having the hospital ships armed, which is a strict no-no today but obviously accepted in Trek. I mean, those big Marine Tarawas and Wasps double as hospital ships, with extensive medical facilities, but they are free game regardless since they are heavily armed. There would be no point in painting red crosses on parts of those ships and saying that these are off limits. A hospital ship featuring search helos and radars would arouse certain suspicions... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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