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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [qb] Well, Mim, two things about the [i]Yorktown[/i]. I have a problem with the whole 'newbuild' theory. By the time of Star Trek IV, the [i]Excelsior[/i] class was coming into its ascendancy. And while [i]Enterprise[/i]-class vessels built within the last ten years might continue to serve for close to a century as their [i]Miranda[/i]-class contemporaries did and do, refitted [i]Constitution[/i]s would be retired, as the [i]Enterprise[/i] was scheduled to be. To my thinking, any venerable [i]Constitution[/i]s would see their names applied to new [i]Excelsior[/i]s rather than to an end-of-the-production-line [i]Enterprise[/i]. We know there was a new [i]Yorktown[/i], as Tuvok said his parents were serving aboard her around the time of the Khitomer Conference. And second, if the old [i]Yorktown[/i] DID make it back, as is posited, and that ship became the new [i]Enterprise[/i], what did Starfleet do with the [i]Yorktown[/i]'s crew? If Sulu's comment at the end of TVH is any indication, new postings were presumed to be to [i]Excelsior[/i]s, rather than the now second-string [i]Enterprise[/i]s. Forgive my rather jumbled technique tonight, but my brain is being foggy for some reason. --Jonah [/qb][/QUOTE]I've only got a few minutes to type at the moment, I post more later, but: I don't buy it at all that [i]Excelsior[/i]s were replacing [i]Constitution[/i]-class ( :p :p :p ) ships at the time of TVH. For God's sake, the prototype hadn't even been made to work yet! I seriously doubt that Starfleet placed any real faith in the [i]Excelsior[/i] program after its lack of performance in STIII, and it's my view that NO new [i]Excelsior[/i]s were built until the design was refitted as a conventional warp vessel and the prototype was awarded active status, circa 2290. (A full 7 years after TVH.) So, where do [i]you[/i] think that the E-A came from, if you don't think it's a newbuild and you don't think it was a pre-existing vessel that was renamed? Did SF just wave a magic wand and there it was? -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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