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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] It could also be that Klingon shipbuilding is not centralized, but is instead mostly handled by the Houses. A basic spaceframe goes as a family heirloom, and the House adds new systems when it can afford to do so. Only the biggest and baddest ships of a period are of Imperial build and operated by Imperial crews consisting of members of favored Houses. This would explain the equipment variation within the static spaceframe design. Yellow torps are of course compatible with what we saw in ST:TMP and ST2 (and I think "Flashback"), and we can assume the K't'inga in ST6 would also have spat out yellow torps (the "prefire glow" was the same sort of orange as in TMP/ST2) - only the BoP needed to fire fake Fed red torps in that movie. The green BoP weaponry in ST3 and ST5 and "Generations" could be a parallel design. Frankly, I think we can rationalize this away, although I'm sorely disappointed we didn't get a new/"old" Klingon design here. It does seem, though, that we have to abandon all theories about the Klingons being wussies at this early date. They are clearly far ahead of Earth, and everything points to them having been that way for a long time. How long, now there is a mystery. Kahless used swords and seemed to live in a largely rural-rustic environment, yet this is no proof he didn't have a warp-driven starship, too. Klingons STILL prefer swords and working with their hands, and have unpaved streets in the High City as seen in "Sins of the Father"... If it's the Vulcans who are balancing the Klingons, then Vulcan starflight has to be ancient, too. If Kahless had warp, then the Romulans probably had it, too, when leaving Vulcan. But if Kahless didn't, then the Romulans probably didn't either, or the imbalance between Klingons and Vulcans would be greater. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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