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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] One could also argue that fleets operating in different areas of space had different classes of ships assigned to them. The distances involved may have been relatively long, so if a prewar emphasis had been on giving new ships to the 6th Fleet on the Klingon border, then the 9th Fleet on the Cardassian front wouldn't have new ships even after several years of fighting. There simply wouldn't be such a lull in combat that those ships could be flown to the other theater of operations. All the most modern ships at 9th Fleet disposal could also have been expended in the unseen first three months of fighting. After that, this secondary battlefront was not replenished because the Dominion was threatening more vital targets like Earth itself. (Note that DS9 had no real strategic value as long as the wormhole was closed, which it was for most of the war - by the whims of the Prophets if not by the minefield). Some of the missing ships could also indeed be mission-specific, explaining their invisibility - the missions of, say, Challenger or Intrepid classes were not ones the 9th Fleet would have performed. However, I think most of Starfleet's vessels are multipurpose enough that they would have been included in the big assaults anyway. On a variation of that theme, perhaps the more modern "BoBW" generation vessels were too fast to be flown in formation with old Excelsiors and Mirandas, which is why Starfleet never wasted them for such missions. Every fleet of course had the big battleships of Galaxy or Nebula class, since there was no slower alternative to them (Starfleet not having built anything that big and strong in the previous, slower generation of starships) - but the 6th Fleet could have had New Orleanses and Cheyennes to go with them, instead of Excelsiors and Mirandas. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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