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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]Er, the fact that the quote says "This ship", and not "all ships of this class", makes that evidence a bit, well, rubbish.[/QUOTE]It's generally accepted that the Enterprise-A was a renamed USS Yorktown, and that the Yorktown was in service during the days of TOS, yes? If we assume two things: 1) That Starfleet was phasing out the Constitution-Class starship in favor of the Excelsior and Miranda-Class as evidenced by: <small>(A) On screen evidence in TNG and DS9, not once do we see a Connie on screen, but we do see plenty of ships from that time period - Excelsiors, Mirandas, even some Constellations early on in TNG. (B) That "a" indicates, or at least supports the conclusion, that the Constitution-Class starship was not in service by the era of TNG/DS9, thus opening the possibility that the Polaris-Class may have its origins in the mothballed Connie-fleet.</small> 2) That the Yorktown/Enterprise-A was being retired because of her age, thusly all of the early run (surviving) Connies had either already been decomissioned or were slated for upcoming decomissioning. Later production run Connies (ships built new after TMP?) may have continued service for longer. None of this proves that the Polaris-Class has its origins in the Constitution-Class, but there's really no evidence to shoot down the theory either. We know that ships of the time period had extremely long lifetimes, so why would Starfleet scrap an entire class when it could retrofit the Consitution-Class starships to provide a niche that otherwise would have to be filled by an entirely new class of starship? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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