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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] Or a ship of exploration shold not double as a battleship. Imagine Jaques Coustau sailing around in the USS Iowa. Tough to announce your peaceful intentions while bristeling with weaponry. [/qb][/QUOTE]I agree, but you don't send in the Rainbow Warrior every time an outpost next door to enemy teritory goes mysteriously quiet do you? Most weeks the E nil was either flying the flag for the federation, or carrying their big stick. While she may have been a ship built for exploration, she was still a ship of the line. Maybe she was a bit like the RN's HMS Leeds Castle, on the Falkland Islands patrol. [/qb][/QUOTE]Therein lays the flaw in both TOS and TNG- after a few seasons of 'alien of the week- never to be seen again" it gts old and the military side of Trek has to fill the void with guns ablaze. If the Enterprises were really exploring (particularly the Galaxy version), dozens of people would comprise each landing party and the ship would stay in a system for weeks or months doing research untill relieved by a sciemce vessel. It old not have been too difficult to pull off either- just start a new episode with the Captain's Log referring to the time spent (at their last localle) and how he's glad to be underway again... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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