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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] If I were an admiral commanding a fleet that was attacking a nearly-invincible enemy, I sure as hell would not choose a half-finished collection of bolts and girders as my flagship! With thirty-nine others to choose from, I find that extremely unlikely. I've always liked the idea of the mostly-empty GCS's serving in the Dominion War, myself. But rushing construction of the ships in time to join a two-year-long war is a hell of a far cry from launching a half-finished hull out of the docks on one day's notice. Consider the problems that Picard had in "Redemption, Part II" -- and that was when he had enough time to plan a little bit ahead. As far as was indicated, all of those ships were fully completed -- the closest there was to an unprepared ship was the Sutherland, which had just been commissioned a few weeks previously, according to the dedication plaque. But that was still a finished ship, not a half-finished spaceframe! I decided to take a really close look at the TNG:TM construction timeline. It seems to me that a very large part of the long assembly time was because of glitches that cropped up during the construction process, especially with the warp engines and nacelles. According to the timeline, more than half of the Enterprise's habitable modules were already installed by 2352, only two years after the start of construction. And the long period from 2360 to 2363 was all shakedown and testing duties -- something that would not be quite as necessary for later ships, once all the kinks had been worked out with the first few ships. I see no reason why the later ships couldn't be constructed in four or five years, maybe six on the outside. (And that's for the fully-assembled ships, not those DS9:TM rush jobs.) I gotta disagree with that idea of the Bonestell retrieving escape pods, though. The Borg have very clearly never shown any interest in following "rules of war" or anything like that, and indeed announced their intention to assimilate the entire fleet. With the other ships being diced up so easily, sending in the Bonestell as a rescue ship would be nothing short of suicide. Personally, I figure that it was running as an ECM picket or something like that. Obviously, it wasn't very effective, regardless. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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