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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] There's nothing wrong with that, provided that the Constitution-class is the only starship class during TOS. Only the best starships of any time time would be called starships, while the others no longer would. Later on, the terminology loosened up. "It takes 430 people to man a starship" (Daystrom, "The Ultimate Computer"). But there was no reason for Okuda to change the 40-year age. The older the ship, the easier it becomes to explain the vastly different style of the movies-era. Let's say that in the TOS era, starships are but a remmant of an earlier age of exploration, no longer worth building in large numbers. These ships and the remote starbases would be out of touch with Earth for months at a time, and always behind as far as technological updates are concerned. In some ways (size? weaponry? speed?) they were top-of-the-line, because they needed to deal with whatever unknown aliens they'd encounter. In other ways, they were inferior. Back on Earth, however, Starfleet would be building smaller and more modern ships such as Mirandas to deal with the Klingons and Romulans. When the Enterprise returned to Earth, it finally got a chance to upgrade to this new standard. What follows is the militaristic era of the Trek movies as we know it, with Enterprise dealing mostly with troubles rather than exploring space. However, because of its age, the class is always under threat of decommissioning and/or serving as a cadet training vessel. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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