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Just because a ship is lost doesn't mean they have to reuse the name. I mean, if they reuse names, that's pretty unoriginal unless its a pretty famous word or famous ship. Last time I checked the city of Bozeman wasn't famous and neither was the ship herself.
Now, as for needed another Bozeman, I think its foolish. The Bozeman isn't very old, all she would need was a refit. That would just take a year. Now, as for Bozeman's age, if my list of launch dates for ship is correct or close to correct, the USS Bozeman was launched in 2266. She was lost in 2278. That's 12 years. Now, she never aged in the timeloop, since the time was constantly repeated. Well, she was found in 2368. If she's still in service today, that's 2368 - 2375, or 7 years. That means Bozeman is only 19 years old, or somewhere around there. That ain't bad, really
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Perfectly rational? I don't know whether to be complimented or insulted.....anyways, Federation Shipmaster told me it might be because I have all those unnamed ships there, and you might think it's just Joe Creighton's list slightly modified. Well, I removed the unnamed ones, and there is only named ones now, save the Excelsior[/i/-class ship with a registry and no name, as with the [i]Constellation from Picard's ready room. Please take a look at it again. I hope it's not too much to ask.
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359: IIRC, the Bozeman was launched a couple days before it fell into the time loop. So, why would they be building brand new ship of this class, and retire the class ten years later? Presumably, the Bozeman wasn't the only Sotuz built in 2278. If SF was retiring decade-old ships, there was probably something wrong w/ them...
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I believe the dialouge indicated that the ship had just set out from port two weeks before, TSN. Quite different from being freshly commissioned.
We know that the Soyuz class was rather odd looking. We know that it is different enough from the Miranda to get its own class name, but we never really find out why. The DS9 tech. manual suggests that phaser strips were first tested on Soyuz class starships. I contend that the Soyuz class was a testbed for new technologies. Based on readily available Miranda hulls, the ships were grabbed during early phases of production to be used in experiments.
I would further suggest that the Soyuz was only meant as a stopgap measure, until a better design presented itself. Upon the construction of that new class, the Soyuz class was retired. That doesn't necessarily mean all Soyuz ships immediately were taken out of service, though they may have been removed from active service. Some, as Frank suggests, could have been recommissioned as Mirandas. Others might have just been pushed out as is, or given to various civilian agencies. Some would have no doubt remained in the hands of ship designers.
I'm reasonably sure that would cover everything we know about the class. Anything I missed?
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