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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: It seems to me to be just as likely that the ASDB had come up with this great new design they called the Excelsior class, and then decided to test transwarp on it, rather than the other way around. In that case, while the failure of the transwarp project would require an (extensive?) refit of the Excelsior herself, the soundness of the design wouldn't be effected, nor would the construction of other ships in the class be delayed for any great period of time.[/QUOTE]I've always figured that if the Excelsior's Transwarp Drive was as radical a development as most of the characters seemed to think (Scotty excepted), then it would probably require some pretty extensive special developments. It seems unlikely that they could just flip a switch to change the ship from transwarp to regular warp... just how many components would need to be swapped out to make the ship a truly reliable standard vessel? I suppose that Starfleet could have started production on some other Excelsiors while the Experiment was in progress, but that seems awfully conceited and wasteful to start full production on an unproven design. When the Experiment was ultimately cancelled (whenever), they would've had to halt production on any ships then in work, rip out some of its guts and start again. Refitting one prototype to new standards is believable. I don't think so for more than one. (Sidebar: was there any definitive proof of a second Excelsior-class ship hanging out in Spacedock in one of the movies?) Also, from the dialogue I always got the impression that the name "The Great Experiment" was synonomyous with the Excelsior -- meaning that there were no other testbed ships. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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