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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] There are some interesting speculations here. I'm going to bring up a few issues, though... What's the general timeline for the construction and launching of the Excelsior, both as the transwarp testbed and as a commissioned ship? Furthermore, would Starfleet already start building further ships of that class while the prototype was still being debugged? There was a line in one episode of TNG ("Evolution," I think) where Data said that no Starfleet ship had experienced full systems failure in XX years (number may be slightly off). Some fan pointed out that that number dated back to around 2287, which could arguably be the failure of the Excelsior. (Circa ST:V.) That failure would've prompted the ultimate end of the Great Experiment. (After all, they could've just replaced the chips that Scotty pulled out in ST:III, right?) In TUC, Sulu's log said that the Excelsior had been on a three-year mission -- a long-range mission at that. Arguably, the ship might have gotten a shakedown period (at least a few months long) before that, meaning Sulu probably took command in late 2288 or 2289. Personally, I now disregard Roddenberry's Yorktown speculation as non-applicable, just the same as his speculation that V'ger had encountered the Borg. There's nothing to directly suggest it, and when you consider other factors (especially Tuvok's parents and the likely Excelsior-class construction schedule) I find it less probable that the Yorktown itself was renamed the Enterprise-A. Another minor detail: some Flareites have analyzed the Spacedock scenes at the end of TVH and pointed out that there were almost certainly several Constitution-class ships in the area; why does the Enterprise-A [i]have[/i] to be the ex-Yorktown? However, I still think that the Enterprise-A was a renamed ship rather than a new build, given the state of disrepair. (I've only seen TFF once, many many years ago, and have no desire to see it again anytime soon; therefore I can't comment about the "new ship" line in the movie.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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