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Why in the hell Akira was desighned so early?!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] We have no accurate data as to the commissioning date of the Akira-class. Assuming the registry indicates late 2350s/early 2360s, this was during the peaceful era, even though there were still wars with the Tzenkethi, Talarians and Cardassians, as well as incidents with the Tholians. Starfleet might have designed a carrier/missile cruiser like this to serve as a one-ship deterrent to small skirmishes rather than having to devote large fleets to putting down small wars. Or it could also be assumed that the ship was on the drawing boards around the Borg contact in 2365 and was commissioned then with older registries because of the fact that they had been planned for some time, but not put into construction until the Borg situation required it. Some have pointed out that the escape pods are of a new design, so it must be a new ship. Actually the only ships we saw with square escape pods were the Galaxy and Nebula, which had been designed in the 2350s. Its plausible the angular escape pods couldhave been designed in the late 2350s, after the Galaxy, Nebula, New Orleans, Cheyenne etc. had already been commissioned with the older design. Or, given that Voyager had square escape pods, that starfleet used two designs of escape pods concurrently, just as they still use type-6 shuttles on new ships even though there are now type-7, 8 and 9 shuttles. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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