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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I guess this could be a pre-Borg thing as well. The Galaxy-like ships start to appear around the time when registry numbers are in the 57000 range. That's roughly the time of the Cardassian wars, too, according to various obscure hints. And the time of conflict with the Tholians, Talarians, Tzenkethi, you-name-it... Perhaps Starfleet wanted to launch a big and beautiful Galaxy-style fleet back then, but the multiple wars meant that older types had to remain in service. So the transition to "Galaxy generation" was never completed. Galaxy-like ships were designed for every possible application, but only built in very low numbers per class (save for the two biggest classes, Galaxy and Nebula, for which there was no available substitute among the older ships) - procurement would have been aborted when the funds were needed for keeping the older ships in service. Thus we never see the Cheyennes, Challengers, New Orleanses and others. The old Excelsiors and Mirandas are simply so vastly more numerous and common. And now it's too late to have a full "Galaxy generation", since Starfleet has already moved forward. Now every ship and its cousin sports the Sovereign style of nacelles and usually also a non-saucerlike, longitudally stretched hull. (Incidentally, I hope the new ships introduced in future TNG movies will stick to the Sovereign style - it's way cool and not milked dry yet.) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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