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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon: [qb] 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. [/QUOTE]Ah, but modern navies are not part of expanding empires- the Federation, as I said, got lazy on new ship development and the new ships they were making were being built at a trickle- the UFP had been in unprecedented peacetime when TNG starts- Klingons were pals, Romulans were AWOL and the only new ships were explorers- everything else was refitted to remain part of a self-defense only force or downgraded to milk run duty like the USS lantree. In such a peacetime climate, it's unlikely the UFP Council and President would authorize a massive ship building campaign. [QUOTE]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. [/QUOTE]I think Starfleet was in a classic "fortress mentality"- all their defense was at the perimeter, with all their second stringers toward the center- and the fleet was "stretched thin"- they had this massive area to patrol and not enough ships to make it happen. The Borg zipped on through and the responding force of 42 ships was more "whatever we can throw at them" instead of the best and most powerful ships. [QUOTE][qb]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]Different shipyards might have different ranges of numbers assigned to them- and, Enterprise aside, different classes might conform to certain registry ranges for ease of coordination- when assigning dozens of ships, it would be a pain in the ass to have to constantly look up what class a ship is- the registry might indicate that information in some way for ease of identification. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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