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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Trek examples of colonization missions seem to indicate that the norm for such operations is to send general transport ships with all you mention EXCEPT having space installations. Starfleet generally isn't involved in these missions, save for escort or defence. Consider episodes like "Up the Long Ladder" or "Ensigns of Command", wherein civilian colonization missions gear up on transport ships and head out on their own. There are examples like "Silicon Avatar" where Stafleet visits colonies to drop off supplies and materials the colony ships didn't or couldn't bring along. Then there's the NEED for an orbital installation... Trek usually suggests that most civilian transports involved in colonization can land; thus, there would be little need for a space-based station for repairs or extra-atmospheric support. Communications are likewise handled from a facility on tehr ground, with the space assets being sumspace relay buoys and the like. Finally, it rarely looks like Federation colonies are really THAT far "out there", or far from support in the first place. If they were to have their own ship, they could buy an older surplus Starfleet ship or arrange to arm a civilian design. In any case, except for shuttles and local sublight designs I don't think that a colony would even WANT to have a larger starship on their doorstep, as Trek seems to prove that having such a ship around would ATTRACT danger. :) Mark Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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