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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] "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." That argument is based on the idea that the 8,000 ly of the Federation cannot be traversed in weeks, which itself is based on the idea that ships cannot possibly traverse this distance faster than 1000c or so. A more obvious explanation for the size of the Federation is that warp speeds vary. Besides, we know that the Cardassian and the Klingon borders are roughly 200 ly away ("Trials and Tribble-ations") and that the journey is merely "a long one" (Way of the Warrior) that at times can be quite short ("The House of Quark"). All these references could quite easily refer to different sections of the Klingon border, especially with the WOTW and THOQ discrepancy. "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." This is a better reason, but Earth wasn't in danger until much later, whereas Cardassia and the DS9 area were the source of the problem. I agree that a good part of the fleet would be diverted to protect Earth because of its political value. However, statistically, there shouldn't be more than two or three such ships in every fleet. There were only, what, three Intrepids in the early 2370s? It makes sense that the most commonly seen ships in all the series are the main battlefleet among the explorers. How else could the Federation survive next to the other militaries with a similar level of technology? There might be a few specialized super-warships (Intrepid, Defiant, Yeager?), along with a few that could have been pulled out of mothballs (Akira/Steamrunner/Sabre?). However, implying that the super-fleets are never where the main action is (even during the final invasion of Cardassia!) is based more in the need to satisfy fanboy perceptions of what ships are kewl. "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." Why would a ship be unable to move slow? We've seen everything from the oldest Mirandas and Excelsiors to brand-new Galaxies fly in formation. Besides, the older ships could simply fly faster; it wouldn't make a difference as the relative speeds would remain the same, regardless if you're all accelerating at 1/4 impulse or 1/2 impulse. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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