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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I'm moving this out of the latest 359 thread. This is my theorhetical timeline of events for the Galaxy class starships seen through the TNG era. It covers MOST bases, methinks, but it remains to be seen how acceptable the assumptions are. Lots of this stuff is scattered around the forum, but it makes sense to bring it all together here. Let's see if it stands the test... And if I blew and hour of time in my office instead of doing work for a good end. :) Assumptions: -Starfleet wanted six GCS to begin with, plus six for later. -Starfleet assigns reg numbers to starship superstructures in chronological order. -Challenger, NCC-71099 was NOT NECESSARILY of the original six. As the timeline below shows, it COULD be, or it COULD be a test article frame related to the GCS development project. -The first six GCS that were completed were Galaxy, Yamato, Enterprise-D, Odyssey, Venture and (for argument's sake) Trinculo. Timeline: A. Starfleet begins construction of twelve sets of frames that can be finished into GCS. The first one begins construction as Galaxy 70637, but the second one, while assigned an NCC number 71099, is not. This can be due to structural improvements or changes that can make the frame lighter, more efficient, or whatever. The analogy drawn is how the space shuttle Challenger test frame was completed as a shuttle because it was lighter - and the Challenger number was OV-99, instead of the completed shuttles' OV-10X. Read about this [URL=http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/challenger.html]here[/URL]. Alternatively, the 71099 could have simply been a framing test article from the beginning. B. The 71099 GCS frame is completed, but put into storage as one of the backups, and Galaxy is completed as planned. The first of the newer frames will be compelted as Yamato 71805, the second ship off out of dock. Enterprise-D, Odyssey 71832, Venture 71854, and (for argument's sake) Trinculo 71867 round out the original six. The 71099 frame plus five others are placed into storage. C. Yamato is destroyed. After an investigation concludes that this is not due to structural failure as Captain Varley suspected in said episode, Starfleet decides to build a replacement for the ship and keep the total GCS fleet at six - much like how the shuttle Endeavor was built to replace Challenger and keep the shuttle fleet at four. At this point, at least one GCS is still under construction at Utopia Planitia. The frame taken out of storage could have been 71099 and eventually completed as Challenger, or not; it really doesn't matter. D. Less than two years later, the Battle of Wolf 359 occurs. Exactly one GCS is present; this could be Trinculo 71867, or alternatively one of the newer frames used instead of 71099. Either way, the ship is either mostly completed or just completed. This would have been supported by the cancelled "Unseen Frontier" book, which would have featured a mostly-finished GCS that was ushered out of spacedock. Model for said ship would likely have been based off of Foundation's own GCS lightwave model, and bits and pieces of the incomplete GCS frame seen in VOY "Relativity". D2. Not that it matters to the timeline, but based on new evidence Admiral Hanson was aboard this GCS and was lost along with it. Hanson commanded the battle from this ship's battle bridge, which obstensibly matches he one installed on the Enterprise-D at the time. E. In order to recuperate losses and shore up the fleet, Starfleet orders at least one, and probably the remainder of the GCS frames to be completed. This is supported by at least two GCS being seen at UP in "Realtivity" (only one seemed to be in a state of construction, though that doesn't necessarily mean anything). By this time, whatever it was that caused the 71099 frame to be placed into storage instead of completed had been resolved, or decided to be accepted regardless. Alternatively, 71099 may never have been part of the twelve frames, and was sitting at Qualor II or something until it was decided to complete it for this purpose, or as a Dominion War "Sternbach GCS", or what have you. F. The remainder of the frames, with or without 71099, are completed. At some point, Starfleet probably requests additional GCS be constructed for whatever reason. Frames are completed as necessary, and completed as required for the Dominion War or whatver purpose. Challenger 71099 is ONLY seen as an alternate future in VOY "Timeless", but there's no reason to suppose that temporal machinations would invalidate this, as the reg number is generally accepted to predate VOY's beginning - much in the same way most fans accept that Pasteur 58925 was running around at least through the run of TNG. Whew! Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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