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One final thought, if the Ambassadors are out exploring, they're probably mostly oriented towards the galactic core, there the density of stars to explore is the greatest. In the event of war, they'd be drawn into action in the Federation's "northern" sectors, whereas the Fleet actions we witness took place in the "east", along the Federation-Cardassian border. Why did we seen other explorers, like Galaxies, then? Maybe because Starfleet thought to keep them close at hand for troubleshooting purposes, just like they did the Ent-D.
quote:Originally posted by Ace: The downside is that we've got certain viewers who took the pretty explosions to mean that the older vessels "suck." Ah well.
By my count, most of the Akiras shown were blown away very, very fast. I don't think of them as sucky, though, no more I'd hold it against Mirandas or Excelsiors. What I hate is when people say "those Akiras were taken out first because they posed the great threat with their |_|63r f19|-|73rs and 15 torpedoes tubes!!!!"
Yeah, [censored].
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Oh, I can't wait for the DVDs to come out so we can all watch those fleet scenes again after five years (they don't show DS9 in my area).
Here's a question: Why, after the loss of the Enterprise-C, wasn't there another Enterprise for the next 20 years since Starfleet seems so fond of the name after Kirk made it famous?
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Maybe it's because she was listed as missing. They held out hope that she might return or show up & have wreckage be found or SOMEthing.
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They started building the E-D not too long after the loss of the E-C. They probably didn't expect it to take so bloody long for them to finish building the thing.
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Because the Galaxy Class was more than likely within Starfleet's mind by 2340, the E-C was lost in 2342, they would have held out hope for the E-C because they had no clue what happened to it they held out hope for a couple years. Finally she was listed MIA presumed destroyed and the name was freed up. Instead of using one of the older classes, Starfleet decided to wait and give the name to the newest most prostegious class yet, which would be out of the drydock in less than ten years [or so they thought].
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