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Frank: Erm... The model that served as the Pasteur in AGT had never been used onscreen before then. They could have called it anything they wanted...
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Well, during lunch I popped out tpo Waldenbooks and grabbed a looksee at the page in the TNG manual where the "Nova" is discussed.
Seems we're both not quite right.
The DESIGN LIFETIME of the Galaxy Class ships is supposed to be 100 years. This, however, does not mean that the ship would not be supplanted within a much shorter frame of time (Just as the Constitution Class saw the development of the Excelsior before its design lifetime ended, and the Excelsior saw the development of the Ambassador AND Galaxy Classes.)
The page that mentioned 20 years said that in 20 years, the Galaxy Class starships would be only 1/5 of the way into their operational lifetimes, but that eventually they would be superceded, and that designers were already working on a class incorporating the newest technologies and assumed advancements. (Of course, these assumed advances were likely made irrelevant due to the other advances coming as a result of the Borg and Dominion incursions.)
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Talking about the projected lifetime of a ship v. the time in which it will be supplanted are two non related issues.
The first (total lifespan) shows the period that the ship will be in service for, and can operate effectively.
The second (superscision)is just technological replacement. As your enemies get bigger stronger ships, so will you. Thus is a period of low hostility you'll replace/upgrade at a slower rate, whilst in a period of high hostility you will develop much faster. (As First stated).
So whilst the Galaxy will have a 100 year lifespan, it would not be a top of the line ship for that period. Not even close.
IDC is right (did I just say that? *L*), this vessel is in essence a space filler. So, if we are running on Chris's principle we'd have to go chasing after every shoddly designed and shown ship from TNG onwards. And there are a hell of a lot of those.
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Well, I just got it on good authority that it was named the Nova class. Out of the frying pan...?
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Is it possible that it was a new technology that was being tested out on the Equinox, among other ships? We know the Defiant is used as a testbed of new tech before other ships get it. Maybe the Equinox was, too.
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Fabrux already started a new thread to continue the discussion, so I'm closing this thread.
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