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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Good question. First, we know that a Defiant can be built in a year or less by a total stranger to the concept ("Shattered Mirror"), and that it is allegedly also the most powerful ship in the quadrant ("Defiant"). On the other hand, we never saw the planned fleets of Defiants -- suggested by Sisko's "new Federation battle fleet" comment in "The Search, I" -- where they were most needed, although we have seen a couple here and there. Possible explanations (all of them could be part of the reason): 1) The Defiants use either rare and expensive materials or large quantities of regular materials -- hence, Starfleet doesn't have enough for an entire fleet of Defiants. 2) The Defiants are difficult to render operational. Both the Sao Paulo and the Valiant needed adjustments to make them more like the original Defiant, meaning that O'Brien isn't keeping Starfleet up-to-date on everything (he didn't tell them about the ablative armor either). The other Defiants could well be inferior to the original one. 3) The aforementioned political reasons -- a low Defiant production rate might have been a prerequisite for the alliances with the Klingons and the Romulans, although I don't believe that Starfleet would agree to this unless the alliances brought in more firepower than would be achievable by building a fleet of Defiants. I don't think that Starfleet would spread out its Defiants to satisfy fleet formation requirements, especially not in the final WYLB battle where we've seen only one. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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