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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] To answer the original question: having only the twelve starships would be totally inconsistent with the realism and believability that the TOS producers were constantly pushing. Of course there were more ships, and "The Making of Star Trek" confirms it -- Kirk is said in his bio in "The Making of Star Trek" to have commanded a destroyer, IIRC, before the Enterprise. The only problem is that we haven't seen them, whereas later series would regularily show different ships such as Mirandas or Excelsiors. Why? Because at this point of time, the Connies are the only starships, that is, the only ships capable of exploring and patroling space; the only ships that would be seen in the far reaches of the galaxy. Even in TAS, where the cheaper cartoon format could've easily allowed new classes of starships equivalent to the Enterprise, none were shown to my knowledge. Sure, the term was loosened up even during TOS, but its original meaning is nevertheless supported in a few episodes, notably "The Ultimate Computer" where Daystrom notes that "it takes 430 people to man a starship." However, this doesn't necessarily mean that there were no starships before Kirk's time -- perhaps, in the old days, there would only be one starship class at a time: NX-class during 2150s, Daedalus class during the 2160s, Constitution-class during 2260s, then the Excelsior-class as the next step (which is why the Constitutions were supposed to retire in Star Trek III). As older classes failed to retire, becoming more and more durable, people abandoned the starship-class term and adopted the more specific class names. It's also possible that new types of missions required different configurations of starships, and that the terminology was loosened up, as I've already suggested. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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