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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shakaar: [QB] Well, I'm not sure of the Defiant itself as an auxiliary craft, but I would concur that Starfleet needs more diversity in the craft it builds- it seems for most of their history they churned out same type of craft, some slightly different, but many seemed pretty cookie cutter just growing larger over time. I am happy that the Dominion war showed the use of fighters, and the tugs, but they really lack a good carrier to deploy a lot of them. It�s good to have ships that are multi-functional for all roles, but sometimes it seems that some ships don�t really fill a needed role, and that there are also no ships designed to fill it either. I�m also somewhat disappointed with what I consider a short-term memory of ship use. For classes we see only once and then poof. Take the Vulcan Surak Class- it�s one of my favorite ship classes from all Trek, its form is so simple and elegant, yet toward the end of Enterprise, when we saw their fleet several times, it was devoid of the Surak. I love the carrier, I think on Earth they have fully been proven as being the more important ships in the fleet- I know the Federation has felt in the past that Starfleet should be geared toward peaceful exploration/ scientific research, and they do not believe in �warships� but Egads, you are also responsible for the security and welfare of billions and billions of people, and there has been one war after the next for centuries, the Xindi, Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, Borg, Dominion, and pretty much every species outside the UFP has pretty much had some noted period of conflict. A Carrier need not fill a fully military role, they can do a lot of functions better. A carrier in peace time can be used as a ship of exploration. It can be sent to a sector and send smaller craft to all the systems there- you could send a small craft to scan each individual planet. In days you could have a lot of highly detailed information on every aspect of the sector. Carriers make good hospital ships as well, when it comes to large scale planetary relief you need a ship with a vast capacity and a wide reach. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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