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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shipbuilder: [QB] Thanks, actually surprised it already hasn't been discussed. Unless that big square has a clear roof over it,assembly would be a nightmare in such a dusty environment. Of course it is a "spy satellite" view so we could be seeing a false color image of some type of penetrating imagery. This may be one of "dispersed" Galaxy-class spaceframes (although not located in a very remote secton of the Federation) Since the TNGTM pretty clearly implies assembly was done in orbit for several major assemblies, I'd have to say this is some type of structural test article. Lots of testing went on for materials, structures, full-up systems prior to integration on the actual ships so what better place to run those tests/fit checks than on some type of high-fidelity ground based model. If the supposed NCC-71099 Challenger backstory aligns up with the real Space Shuttle Challenger we may be looking at the U.S.S. Challenger on Mars. (for reference: OV-099 was actually a static test article prior to buildup to an actual space-rated shuttle and someone suggested that was why the USS Challenger had a lower NCC number than the other Galaxy's) Alittle on air officialdom could have gone along way with this one. Even though it was from a parallel universe episode, I don't see any reason to think it wasn't intended to be there in our universe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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