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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz took four years to build. From "First Flight" we can suppose that it took anywhere between 1-3 years to build Enterprise. More importantly, I think they held off on starting NX-02 for several reasons. For starters, the NX class is their largest ship yet; they probably have only so much resources to build one at a time, including stuff like spacedocks and production facilities. NX-02 was obviously being assembled in a different dock than Enterprise; assuming they were keeping the NX-01 dock empty to service Enterprise or other ships and not for construction, I seriously doubt they'd have much more than that. Also, I'm sure they wanted to make sure that Enterprise was built on a sound design before cranking them out. With the NX class being such a breakthrough design, it would make sense for Starfleet to make sure Archer and company worked lots of bugs out before ordering mass production. Note, for example, that six years went between the launch of USS Galaxy and Enterprise-D, with Yamato somewhere in between. Regarding your other point, sending a warp two task force into the Expanse would take years to do. Enterprise is fast, heavily armed (for them) and equipped with characters that can't die. ;) Besides, Starfleet was convinced that dealing with the Xindi is more important than re-sending Enteprise out to explore more stuff, and I would tend to agree. If someone's concerned that Enterprise whould stay home instead, why bother? The Intrepid and those triangular ships had phase cannons, and could presumably be armed with photon(ic) torpedoes as well. Unless Enterprise is tremendously superior to her predecessors in sublight maneuverbility (which doesn't seem likely according to onscreeen evidence), one ship probably wouldn't make a difference to the next Xindi attack. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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