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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Grand Admiral Thrawn: [qb] The Enterprise was not specifically the nearest ship to the Neutral zone and Picard was recalled to a meeting at a starbase before the Enterprise was sent to make contact, he states that the Enterprise was chosen for the encounter by Starfleet command.[/QUOTE][/qb] It was the flaship. If you're about to meet a potentially hostile and mysterious race that you haven't seen for half a century, it makes sense for them to send their best. [QUOTE][qb] Likewise nowhere does it say the odysey was the closest ship rather that it was patrolling the DMZ (along with how many other ships?) [/QUOTE][/qb] Actually, the ship was heading for the station at the start of the episode (way before any emergency), so it almost certainly was the closest ship. [QUOTE][qb]Its widely accepted that the Warbird is more heavily armed than a Galaxy[/QUOTE][/qb] By whom? Picard wasn't overly keen about facing them down, but that (I assume) would be because he was worried that some of his crew would get killed in a fight, whether they won or lost. [qb] [QUOTE] and the Galaxy is the pinacle of the fleet, with most other ship in starfleet being VASTLY less powerfull.[/qb][/QUOTE]Assuming that the Romulans only have the Warbird because that's (almost) the only ship we saw is shakey logic of the highest order. As has been mentioned before (on this thread), the Romulans are just the sort of people who would develop a number of large, impressive looking ship purely for looks while keeping the rest of their extremely outdated and shit fleet out of view of Starfleet. [qb] [QUOTE]Put it this way, if a Federation Colony were the victim of a natural disaster and two thousand colonists were in need of evacuation or medical tratment, what ship class could respond other than a Galaxy or a Nebula?[/qb][/QUOTE]The closest ship available. Or do you think Starfleet will say "hmm, we've got an Excelsior 2 hours away, but we'd best wait for the Galaxy class that's 3 weeks away"? In any event, it's not a straight swap. Let's say there is a mini-fleet with 10 Excelsior's, 2 nebula's and a Galaxy. Starfleet builds another Galaxy. Do they scrap an Excelsior, or do they just add the Galaxy to the mix? Going by the NCC numbers, the old ships haven't been built for quite a while. All high registry ships are new designs like the Defiant and Intrepid classes (baring registry fuckups, obviously), so the new ships Starfleet is building [i]are[/i] new. But why get rid of perfectly servicable old ships? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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