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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shakaar: [QB] I question Starfleet�s strategy during the war with the Dominion. When the Galaxy Class was designed with a saucer section that could separate, the logic was explained that most of the saucer section was devoted to living quarters, extra science labs, recreation facilities (holodecks and other exercise areas), hydroponics labs, arboretum, and room for families to live. And in a battle, the saucer could be left behind somewhere for the stardrive section to go into battle. In the Dominion war it seemed all the starships stopped at one base or another, joined into fleets and we saw that all the Galaxy Class vessels went to war with their saucers. In Best of Both Worlds pt 1 Riker rejects the idea of saucer separation to fight the Borg because they might need the energy from the saucer section�s impulse engines- I find this argument a bit odd as the warp reactor can produce how many thousand fold the energy that the saucer could provide? And if one subtracts the power that needs to be used to shield the entire ship, to that of what it would take to shield just the drive section, combined with the power the saucer draws for life support and all the other systems- I don�t feel it�s a plus to have it along, that and without it the ship�s mass is less which is a plus, and it�s profile is greatly reduced� So, if captains seem to want to take a saucer into battle, I ponder it would just be best to have a secondary saucer designed for this� a battlefield saucer. When war is declared, ships set course for the nearest starbase and instruct the families and extra personnel to the saucer, all required crew go to the stardrive/battlebridge. When they get to the starbase the saucers are switched out� the new one would have no quarters, only extra fusion generators, torpedo launchers, phasers emitters, and fighter bays. The Galaxy Class Saucer is big enough to house two Defiant Class vessels (though it would be very awkward to refit an older saucer for this and a new design would be better) �an old one could be refit with bays to hold many Peregrine Class however. It could be made into a great warship and carrier. The Defiant and Peregrine can certainly get to the battlefield on their own without the need for a carrier, but as we saw in DS9, wars can drag out- and far from home, with few places to set in for repair. A battlefield saucer could certainly help expedite repairs on at least the smaller ships in the fleet. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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