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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] It might be, if we knew more of it. Did it actually fly to Idran? Or did it rather conduct long base interferometry measurements from within the Alpha Quadrant? Was it launched by the Federation (that is, after 2161), or "inherited" from a member species that had launched it decades, centuries or millennia earlier? Was there a Quadros II, and possibly six thousand other sister probes of rough photon torpedo size, or did the resources of the UFP get drained by building just one of these moon-sized long range behemoths? Generally, it's difficult to see how probes could perform meaningful exploration unless they were as big and complex as full starships. And if probes like that can be built, why does Starfleet pay Kirk a salary? But the titular probe of VOY "Friendship One" proves that relatively compact automated vehicles can attain extreme speeds and sustain them for long periods of time, spanning the galaxy in their journeys - so there must be some technological trick to doing automatons that are so clearly superior to manned vehicles. Perhaps the super-duper probe engines would kill any crew with their special warp fields or powerplant radiation? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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