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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I don't think there's any way to say how many of the ships present by the time the Borg got to Earth were first responders. I mean, presumably they were getting reinforcements the entire time, as fast as they could get there, but as to which ship arrived when? There's nothing to such speculation. Re the relative power of various ships: Surely, even if Star Trek ships were real and we could go look up the exhaustive specifications, the question of "who would win in a fight" wouldn't be answerable just by those numbers. I mean, the Prometheus can outgun a couple Romulan Warbirds? OK. But whose officer culture pays the most attention to intelligence reports? Does the totalitarian nature of Romulan society bolster the morale of their crews or weaken them? And so on and so on forever. Like, it depends on what you want to do with them, I guess is what I'm trying to say. Which goes back to Starfleet being a big organization with lots of room for diverse goals, I suppose. (It is kind of interesting to think about, though. Real navies undertake scientific missions all the time, though usually with specific military goals in mind. ((Undersea topography, for instance.)) And I'd bet that the Napoleonic references Roddenberry drew on influenced Starfleet's hybrid status too, since such uses of military vessels were even more common then. NASA, of course, isn't in any hurry to arm their astronauts, but that's because they have an exceedingly small chance of being shot at; though NASA undertakes Defense Department missions all the time; less so these days, I gather, since the Air Force prefers to launch its own stuff. I suppose this is the time for an SG-1 reference; it even features a hybrid scientist-soldier. Or I guess two, really, though I am thinking more how Daniel started out as the smart guy everyone else had to watch out for, and now he is more often than not doing the heroic commando things himself. Incidently, Carter reminds me of what I was going to say originally, which is that I'd be less sorry ((in the, hey, these people sure didn't get what they bargained for sense)) for the "fighting scientists" than I would be the people who go to Starfleet Academy just because it is a good school, and who aren't looking to spend much time in Starfleet itself; but, then, there are plenty of real-world examples of that as well.) [This is painfully nerdy.] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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