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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Then again, it could be that Starfleet never built a prototype for the Galaxy class. Not in the sense of "a ship built before the series production vessels to see if series production is viable". I mean, prototypes for ships are prohibitively expensive in the real world. Either you build the ship class, or then you don't. There's no "Let's try with one, and see if we like it" to it. Sure, it often pays to order just a limited number of ships first, and then give thumbs up for a second batch if everything goes fine. But it's not worth the while to create a shipbuilding apparatus for just one prototype, and then discard it when the prototype fails, or even let it idle while the prototype is undergoing tests. When the first ship is launched, the keel for the second should be laid immediately. Aircraft can be prototyped. Even though they, too, often require a specific "building apparatus" to be created, the expenses of creating a dud plane and the associated dud apparatus are far less than those of creating a ship that nobody wants. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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