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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I still think that the Ambassadors were Explorers through and through. Plus, using the Enterprise-C as a measuring stick isn't necessarily a good thing - Starfleet's Enterprises have always been in a "best of the best" sort of positon within the fleet. In fact, aside from the E-nil (and Pre-E, for that matter), Enterprises are generally NOT on missions of true deep-space exploration. Then, count in the INTENT of these designs, as exemplified in the nigh-fact (and admittedly nigh-dated) text of the TNG-TM. Galaxies and Ambassadors are the "primary instruments of exploration" of the fleet. The conclusion that I'm trying to reach here is that from all we see of the "big" starships, that they are fully equipped per design to be EXPLORERS. That we rarely see them in that capacity is not necessarily a strike against them; most of this evidence is from the Enterprise, and we generally accept this as the exception to the rule. Enterprises are more frequently seen as troubleshooters, and this can easily be due to their role as one of the most important ships in the fleet. This is not to say that other ships aren't used for exploration; the Constellations are obviously well equipped for this as well, but are simply not as big or as glamouous as the Ambies or Galaxies. I still think that the Ambassadors are smaller production runs for ships and that they were simply decommissioned, destroyed or unavailable for most of the war. What Ambies there were can easily be lost in the clouds of starships we see in DS9. Just because the VFX guys didn't have a model doesn't mean they weren't there. :) Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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