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No discrepancy, but I suppose I'll have to do a rewrite anyway, since my meaning wasn't clear. I assumed that production started in 2157, and production took about 2 years. Shakedown took another year. After all, Ya don't wanna take an untested ship into combat unless things are going to hell in a handbasket. From what little I've read of the Romulan war, things were never quite than grim for Earth's forces.
That would take us to sometime in 2160, the year the war ended. When the Federation was formed, they put the Ogre class into the ready reserve (ready to respond to an emergency, but not actually doing anything unless there is one). After paying to keep this beast's motor running for 2 years (with no emergency to justify the expense), Starfleet decided to mothball the two examples that had been completed. I supposed that it can become more cost-effective to keep a ship mothballed than to bring it out of mothballs or scrap it. After all, if it costs more to bring the @#$% thing to a scrapper than they'll pay for it, let it sit.
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