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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ahkileez: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Toadkiller: [qb] My point is though that the troops on the QM were not going directly into battle. They would get to the UK and stage, build up and then take shorter hops.[/qb][/QUOTE]Well I really don't expect the mythical ship we're talking about to put down on the surface and see a quarter million troops come running down her ramps into battle. Of course there would have to be some staging and preparation first :) [QUOTE] I could more buy that if you wanted to invade a planet like Earth that you'd seize something undefended in the outer system and then make the main assault at sublight after the planetary defenses were down. [/QUOTE]This is precisely how you'd have to do it. Either from further out in the system, or captured territory on the surface of the planet itself. You'd have to establish a beachhead and then push out from there. [QUOTE] My main contention though is that we've never seen the Federation do quarter million people level operations. They *should* probably work at that scale, but certainly that's not the scale Trek has been on TV. Maybe the Federation is much more sparsely populated that we'd think. [/QUOTE]I think it's certainly a larger leap to assume the galaxy is underpopulated than it is to assume the show's writers have just lacked foresight in properly developing the logistics of that world properly. Trek never really gets the scale of things right. For example, I just grabbed this off Memory Alpha: "Out of the 112 ships in the Seventh Fleet, only 14 survived the fight at Tyra and made it back to Federation lines." That's 98 ships that were lost in that battle. Given the scale of the losses, it's highly unlikely that they recovered many of the crew from these ships. So, assuming an average of 200 crew per ship, that was nearly 20,000 troops killed in one place in one single battle in a war that lasted for years. I could be wrong, but I don't think we've ever heard numbers like that in Trek, despite the fact that the were right there in the background. Once you start thinking beyond the borders of a single planet, the numbers *have* to get huge. It's just that the writers weren't used to thinking in those terms, so the show never reflected them properly. [QUOTE] Certainly help explain why entire planets all where the same kind of clothes and have the same hair style. [/QUOTE]This drives me up the wall. I believe Bernd actually has an article about it on EAS. A poster on another board mentioned to me the other day that we can't actually depend on Trek to show galactic diversity properly when they haven't even managed to get human diversity right. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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