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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Oh, I dunno - we've gone over it before how there would be tons of space available in older starships now that crews for non-combat functions could be a mere handful. Just convert all the extra crew quarters into cargo space, add in a bunch of low-rez cargo transporters, another bunch of CFI replicators, and Bob's your uncle. You should easily be able to cart around whatever raw materials the replicators need in standard cargo containers, which are never that big in the Trek universe.. Mind you, there would be only so many uses for a replicator ship - I mean, if you were gonna replicate medical supplies, it'd probably make a hell of a lot more sense just to send a ship full of medical supplies instead. We're probalby talking about industrial-only usage - making construction materials and such over the short term, or perhaps even to create the infrastructure for a refinery that will do the work more efficiently. I imagine that making industrial stuff the old fashioned way is always going to be more efficient than replication, and that replicators are used only to help set up critical stuff faster - as in the case of Bajor, where they obviously needed the help in recreating their infrastructure following the Cardassian retreat. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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