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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I just remembered another specific mention -- didn't someone in the Starfleet Command control room in "Star Trek IV" mention planetary defenses (that naturally weren't working)? If the Mars defense drones were outdated designs, I think they'd probably be no more than a hundred years old. Starfleet wasn't as "stupid" with respect to Federation defense in the TOS era -- with the Romulans, Klingons, Tholians, and others all posing major threats, they probably had a more tiered defense network back then. That could be the origin of the drones, that were kept for emergency use. Hmmm... maybe those drones *were* from the TOS era... and had been mothballed. Starfleet started reactivating them when the cube breezed through the task force at Wolf 359, but there were only three ready by the time the cube got to Mars. Another possibility: perhaps the "Mars Defense Perimeter" is actually an archaic term that fell out of use after the long-term direct threats to Earth faded, and there really WAS no real allotment of armaments to that now-imaginary perimeter -- and the use of that term just indicated the gravity of the situation, that no hostile invasion force had made it that far since the Earth-Romulan War (maybe). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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