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I was just pointing out what the dedication plaque said. At that time when they made the show they hadn't decided to make it Constitution-class.
But I think in the early days of Star Trek, the size of the fleet wasn't really known. All the types of ships used, yes the Federation operated different types of ships, but the Constitution-class was the big main ship of Starfleet.
I can't say what Roddenberry and the rest of the TOS production crew were thinking.
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Hobbes: Though there isn't a very reasonable technical explanation for the showing of the Constitution and nothing else, there is a real life one. Keeping down production costs. They only had a specific amount of money to spend per episode, and couldn't go over it. Just creating the K'tinga model cost them alot of money. That's why the Klingons allied with the Romulans, so they could show NBC they were spending their money wisely on making that model.
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Hm... Well, if the Republic was still around, then make it one of the twelve on my list, and file the Defiant w/ the Endeavour as not having been launched...
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