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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Futurama Guy: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [qb] The U.S. Navy has more than enough ships in its fleet that it will never need to draft civilian ships into military service. Now look at the Earth Starfleet of the 2150's. Not really much of a "Star Fleet" at all. They have very few ships, and the ECA has been around far longer than they have, with presumably many more vessels. Take Paul's quote that no one wants to run freight anymore, and the reference in "Fortunate Son" that frieghters will soon be receiving warp 5 engine upgrades. Presumably this means that there will be perfectly good (albeit old) freight vessels that no one is using for freight runs. I find it perfectly logical that the Federation Starfleet could have inducted these vessels into service as refitted front-line explorers such as the TOS Horizon, Archon, etc., or at the least, the Mayweathers could have sold their ship to Starfleet. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't. There is really no point in conscripting a bunch of 50+ year old freighters into the Federations' Star Fleet, considering that the Vulcans and Andorians presumably have scores of more powerful and valuable starships that would probably make up the bulk of the Federations' Star Fleet during its onset. It would seem to make much more sense to integrate those into the new Star Fleet looong before the antiquated ships of the ECA.... Consider: Upon the sharing of technology, and "catching Earth up" technologically, the decision was probably made to make the entire Star Fleet vessel design patterned after Earth vessels (evidence: every Federation starship we have ever seen). Once the Vulcan and Andorian designs became outdate and were phased out of the military....the "new" Federation designs (e.g. Constitution Class), patterned after the "old" Earth designs, would become the backbone of Star Fleet, and the Vulcans and Andorians would conform to this new design as well, as far as their military vessels go (evidence: USS Intrepid, USS T'Kumbra, semi-USS Hera)....this too, would involve crew integrations aboard various ships as well [/QB][/QUOTE]
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