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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] The discussion of mission types re the Galaxy and Sovereign classes got me thinking about how the shows tend to fall back on the familiar instead of having the Enterprise doing it's exploring strange new worlds gig. Regarding the Galaxy class being designed for long deep-space missions, I recall that when TNG came on, within a half-season I was rolling my eyes. In the pilot they went to Daneb IV, "beyond which lies the vast unexplored mass of the galaxy", and, apparently turned right around and started crusing known space instead. It was stupidly reinforced when at the end of every other episode they were heading for starbase this and starbase that. If the writers had been on the ball they could have been heading into some new place at the end of each episode, and even if the stories we saw weren't always out in the frontier, the implication would be the ship was always out exploring between episodes. I think it's obvious that the Sovereign was -- as all the ships are, really -- designed to look cool without really giving much consideration to what would have to go in it and how it would do its (unstated) mission profile. That was the case with the D too. Originally it was only going to be Excelsior length, but Probert convinced Roddenberry to make it HUGE. Why? Not for practical reasons. Cause it would be more impressive for it to be a giant compared to the old ship, I guess. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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