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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Grand Master General Futurama God: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: [qb] Here's an interesting fact from TNG's third season. When Riker, Troi and Lwaxana are taken hostage by the Ferengi, Data and Wesley talk about the academy. Data tells him that 90% of those who finish the academy are not transferred to Galaxy-class starships. Assuming that there are six Galaxys, each with a crew of 1000, there are only 60,000 new ensigns each year. Just taking the statement from Wolf 359 into concideration (40 ships equal 10,000 people) either starfleet has been constantly growing at a constant rate over the past decades (few retirements/deaths) to maintain such a fleet or there are (better: were during TNG) much less ships in service than we currently think. For comparison: The DS9TM assumes that the Cardassian military recruits more than half a million new troops each year. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't believe your math is correct. You're assuming that each Galaxy gets a 1000 *new* ensigns each year (x6), if I'm reading you right. There isn't even that many officers assigned to a Galaxy in the first place, AFAIK - being the large number of civilians/families aboard. Data inversely says, that 10% of all graduating ensigns get transferred to a GCS -- so the math cannot be figured unless you know the number of ensigns assigned to a Galaxy each year, which was not given -- and/or you need to know what percentage of the ships crew of 1000 are *new* ensigns. In contrast, you can only determine the number of newly assigned ensigns to a GCS if you know the number of SFA grads.... Also, at that point, as far as we know, there were only 5 GCS, being that the Yamato was out of the picture. As far as Wolf 359 goes and the average of 250 casualities per ship...there must have been a significant number of survivors or a lot of skeleton crew ships, or we have vastly under estimated the number of crewmembers these ships have, as I cannot imagine the Excelsiors, and Nebulae and Ambassadors involved were so lightly manned. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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