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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [QB] Surely, as everything else in the Empire is, things like resources are controlled by the greatest of the great houses. This suggests to me that, as it's also the great houses that do most of the fighting (or at least stand off against each other most) they are the only ones with big new capitol ships. All the other houses make do by capturing, stealing or buying older ships, which are less efficient and less powerful. Even an older ship is more useful in this kind of economy than the resource rich caring and sharing kind in the Federation, which would not need to keep renovating old ships. Really, I find it hard to believe that the rich Federation would bother using older ships when you consider its main goals are exploration and making new friends. While upgrades are commonly used in real life navies to extend the life of older ships, richer nations tend to get rid of ships at a faster rate, have smaller navies and move towards automation - something hard to retrofit into older designs. Because of this I suspect that the vast majority of Starfleet prior to Wolf 359 would be ships 10 - 30 years older than the E-D, primarily of the designs that were only ever made as wreckage for that battle scene. Many, but no where near all of these, would have been destroyed, along with several reserves of older design. Come to think of it, the Aries was referenced in a couple of TNG eps and then in the okudagram in Nemesis. The fleet rebuilding would have no doubt been in full swing by DS9 and churning out some brand new Borg killers (the FC designs) as well as several more (perhaps upgraded versions) of the "lost era" designs. Older ships, like the Lakota, would be upgraded as an emergency measure, and not in the huge number as suggested in s5-7 of DS9. I would also expect that most of these would be destroyed in the opening battles of the Dominon War. To me, there really is not much of a logical argument to explain the vast numbers of movie era ships (in universe that is). As for registries? Well, I always thought the numbered the TNG ships way to high. The highest registry we see in the movies is what? 2050ish? So they built 68000 odd ships between TUC and TNG - 1000 ships a year. That just seems like a really big number to me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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