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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Today, on an almost monthy basis we get news of some new planet being discovered around a faraway star. At present, they're only able to detect larger gas giants due to gravitational wobble or brightness dimming techniques; only last month have they discovered a relatively small and heavy, rocky planet that's still a far cry from possible Earth-type worlds. But it occurs to me that in Trek, we never really get a case of some starship running across a brand new star system where they actually know what M-class planets there are in the system, at least not remotely... The starship has to get relatively near to the system first. I suppose that in the Trek universe, they never really improved on planetary detection from Earth to the point that they can routinely detect rocky, Earth-like planets. Can anyone think of exmples for or against this theory? Having recently watched the first season DVDs, I remember that in ENT they routinely only found planets that they simply stumbled across... For dramatic purposes this is okay, but in the far-enough future I'd think that Starfleet would be able to detect lots of M-classers by themselves, and simply have given Archer a list of potentially cool places to go instead of the aimless wandering they essentially did. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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