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Would you guys stop asking stupid questions... the Galaxy Class was like that. The Galaxy, Yamato, E-D, and maybe three others all had work done on them prior to 2353, when the Galaxy herself was comissioned... 2353 is also ten years before the E-D was launched.
There is more for the idea that each class in Star Trek has at least three spaceframes laid in the beginning, and that one of them becomes the NX.
They were still testing the NX Danube when the first production run was almost completed! What I read about the Defiant in the DS9 TM also seems to indicate that there were 6 vessels in wait with that class.
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Just a thought - if there were multiple spaceframes for things like the Gal, Dan, Int - I'm thinking about the Excelsior!?! Did they make 3 or more 'transwarp' type ships!?! Did scotty sabotage all three when he had time!?! Hmm. Maybe this shows that it wasn't just Scotty's tampering that fucked up 'transwarp'. Maybe they DID have transwarp - it was just a little faster than warp 'norms' of the day... then you could say The Galaxies had a 'transwarp' in comparison to the Excelsiors - since again they could go faster etc. It's all just warp though!?!
Oh, and I was just looking at that Bozeman 'refit' is that a Nebula type sensor pod (presumably much smaller) on the top there where the 'antennae' used to be?
Andrew
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Well, presumably the Excelsior was more than just a testbed for transwarp. I suspect the thinking was more along the lines of "We've got this new starship design ready, why don't we try out this transwarp idea on one of them." rather than the other way around. So there could have been more Excelsior spaceframes being constructed at the time, but I doubt any but the Excelsior herself had a transwarp drive.
On the other hand, ST III is more than a little unclear about the status of that experiment. Had they just installed the transwarp stuff? Was the experiment near the end or just beginning?
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I wouldn't be against the idea that there were at least three Excelsior Class spaceframes in the early part of the 2280's. But only one of them was completed by the time of ST III, which was the NX herself. The other two had work slowed [during the Transwarp Trials] and then stopped [when things didn't go right] and finally restarted [when the brass decided to settle on a warp drive Excelsior].
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