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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Just to add to the length of the thread, I'll contest the claim that the Defiant was supposed to operate in swarms of her sister ships. All "The Search" claims, as I see it, is that the Defiant was to herald an era where the ships in Starfleet would be capable of taking on the Borg. The Defiant would be the first ship in this new Starfleet. She wouldn't necessarily be any more dependent on swarm-style "fleet operations" than other starships would, however - all Sisko is saying is that she would be part of the (Star-)Fleet of tomorrow. Perhaps she'd be a silver-bullet part specializing in solo operations; perhaps a regular ship that sometimes flies in formation with other ships; or perhaps she would indeed be operated in swarms. But this wasn't clear from Sisko's statement at all, and what Starfleet really intended to do with the ship remains mere guesswork. What the Fleet ended up doing with the ship was probably utterly unrelated to the pre-"The Search" plans. Save for the one botched assault in "Valiant", or the alt-universe sally against the Regent's mega-battlewagon, the ships of this class were never really operated against enemies comparable to the Borg. NX-74205 mostly preyed on small opponents, sometimes taking on a Galor or a Keldon but rarely approaching a full-sized Dominion warship. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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