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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [qb] [QUOTE]Why spend a year refitting an antiquanted starship when you can build a new Miranda (or possibly even an Excelsior) in the same timeframe that will serve far longer?[/QUOTE]Jason, I thought you were in FAVOR of the theory that the Polaris-Class were retrofitted Connies? [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm neither for or against: I'm just for the possibility. [QUOTE]Because it almost certainly takes far longer than a year to build a Miranda or an Excelsior. Remember how long the Enterprise-D supposedly took? [/QUOTE]But the Galaxy wasa new design with millions of tons more mass, ship complexity and some untested systems. A Miranda (by STVI) could indeed be built in a year: the Fed a HUGE rescouses at it's disposal and the Miranda design was a long proven one with likely dozens (if not hundreds) of ships having already been built. An Excelsior would really have taken a couple of years to build but using the examples of the Galaxy or Sovvie is silly: the complexity is geometrically greater and the ships are ten times larger with far larger crews. So: I think the initial Polaris starships might indeed have been built from decommisioned Connie Refit parts but if they made a whole class from the designs, they probably unsed only the Connie spaceframe, nacelles, torp launcher and not much else. The interior of the saucer would have to be severely altered to accomidate engineering, the greatly reduced crew size and mabye some small sutttlebay hangar under the saucer like the NX-01. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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