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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] For SB74 specifically, I gather repairing is an important task. The station in "11001001" only held three starships, all of which were badly broken down (as it would have taken 18 hours to get even one of them moving). Clearly, there were no "visiting" starships that weren't utterly disabled, since the heroes contemplated diverting a slow vessel 66 hours distant for an intercept, before even *mentioning* the ships at the base. It could even be that SB74 handles no other Fleet tasks besides computer refitting, and only does that because it's so conveniently situated near Beta Magellan/Bynaus. If the station had other Fleet obligations, surely there would be pursuit-capable ships in the vicinity! (No doubt the station had thousands of runabout-category craft, but those can't pursue a starship, Kirk's suicidal stubbornness in "The Menagerie" notwithstanding.) I rather fancy the idea that the mushrooms (the "small" Earth one, and the at least three huge TNG ones) are principally civilian facilities, with the "starbase" just a bunch of rooms somewhere within. The relationship of the base to the station would be much like that of a TOS surface starbase to the respective planet. So in "11001001", Quinteros (if he was the SF boss) would have been in charge of perhaps a few thousand people running the Starfleet piers and docks, while the station held closer to a million people dedicated to other things (commerce, industry, research, entertainment, or just plain living there). The civilian adminstrator would in fact be a much bigger boss than Quinteros, perhaps even have some direct authority over him. ...Which, in terms of this thread, probably means the civilian leadership has much plusher facilities than the Starfleet one. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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