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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Well, the Romulans did get two plot-driven designs in TNG, the scout and the science ship. This sort of gradual fleshing-out was more than the Klingons ever got - deliberate instead of accidental, purpose-built instead of adapted from a design conceived for a wholly different purpose. Yeah, admittedly, the science ship was a conversion of the scout, but not of an alien ship of completely different original scale and purpose. Such dedication did not really help the Romulans to the forefront, though. When Klingons got freighters, they only got modified alien ones. Even Cardassians got better than that. But both at least *got* freighters. And patrol ships. And space stations. And an impressive array of new props and sets. And all that without the benefit of a movie spot. In some ways, our good guest aliens are in a luckier situation than our heroes. They get interesting aspects of their cultures and militaries explored, with a given aspect seldom revisited. The heroes are stuck with whatever cubicle they occupy in the Starfleet hierarchy, often for seven seasons at an end. ST:FC did something of a disservice to Starfleet, giving us hordes of "new" GP starships when all that effort could have been put on some truly novel and interesting aspect of our heroes' organization. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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