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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Identity Crisis: [QB] Kirk said that there were only twelve like her in the fleet. This has been interpreted in four ways: 1. Kirk was talking rubbish, as he often seemed to be doing. So we ignore him as we often do. 2. There were only 12 ships of the same capabilities as the Enterprise, all other ships were noticeable smaller and less capable. This is the interpretation taken during the production of TOS. 3. There were only twleve ships of the exact same configuration as the Enterprise. Other heavy cruisers, possibly looking quite similar may exist. This is the interpretation taken in the classic Star Fleet Technical Manual. 4. There were only twelve ships of the general configuration of the Enterprise, i.e. what we now call the Constitution class. Other ships would have different configurations but could be of similar capability (e.g. a TOS Miranda). This seems to be the favoured approach of modern fandom. I find 2 to be too restrictive. So I tend to a view that's something of a combination of 1, 3 and 4. When Kirk made that statement most of the initial batch of Constitutions were still in service and some of the second batch (Bonhomme Richard sub-class) had entered service. For a total of somewhere between one and two dozen, with only about a dozen being exact sister ships of the Enterprise. [QUOTE][qb]To me I like the ships from Sotf personally. if there was other classes besides the Connies, they would the Sotf not Fandom or other designs.[/qb][/QUOTE]Huh? Can you reword that last sentence? SotSF is fandom. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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