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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The launch date of the Bonadventure was never specified in TAS, and she looks like something launched only a few decades before NCC-1701... And I don't think Bernd is doing TAS anyway, except through pointers to Curt Danhauser's site. Speaking of unclear launch dates, the Valiant is also an unknown entity. Kirk says the ship departed "over 200 years ago" and the recorder buoy was launched "almost 200 years ago". This gives a lot of leeway. The Valiant could easily even be a sublight vessel from the 2050s, since there seems to be a concensus that she could not have reached "the edge of the galaxy" on her own regardless of the drive system she possessed. The Columbia from "The Cage" would have been launched well after the founding of the Federation, since Vina was a child at launch and an old woman, not a desiccated old corpse, when encountered by Pike. Also, Pike thought the fake males there were plausible. They would have been mature adults at launch, most probably, and still looked reasonably pre-mummified when discovered. Okuda's Chronology suggestions seem acceptable in this respect. IMHO, the database should be limited to vessels and installations shown or mentioned in Trek, omitting the real-world vehicles whose existence in the Trek timeline cannot be confirmed. For example, we know the Apollo spacecraft existed since we have seen some tabletop models etc., but there is no proof the Gemini or Soyuz programs existed... I think we should play safe here. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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