XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise, alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.tech   
   From: jbelanger@insightbb.com   
      
   First Fallen wrote:   
   >>Excellent!! I mean it is very well done!! I have just one critisim.   
   >>Your discription of its capabilities is too militaristic. You have to   
   >>remember that Starfleet is an diplomatic/ expoloritory organisation   
   >>forced to take on a military component. Imagine NASA with guns. I am   
   >>sure if you ask anybody in Starfleet they would gladly have their   
   >>vessels unarmed, but the realities of the Galaxy dictate otherwise.   
   >>   
   >>Still they would play up the peaceful uses of such a ship and play down   
   >>the military capabilities. However, that does not mean they wouldn't   
   >>have them, not with the Borg still being a threat, and Capt. Janeway's   
   >>report about Speicies #whatever lurking out there...   
   >   
   >   
   > Not neccessarily.  Look at the Defiant, it was specifically designed to be a   
   > combat assault ship, to fight against the Borg.   
   >   
   > The Federation and Starfleet have had to deal with increasing threats from   
   > all over.  It stands to reason that they would better equip their ships to   
   > defend the Federation.   
   >   
   > Starfleet is still thought of primarily as a tool of exploration, but it is   
   > equally a tool of defense.  Wolf 359 and the Dominion War have taught   
   > Starfleet valuable lessons about having to make sure their ships are   
   > prepared for whatever they encounter out there.   
   >   
   > (I always thought it was stupid - "It's a science vessel" or "It's a medical   
   > ship" "it has minimum armament"  Why?  Scientists and doctors don't need to   
   > defend themselves?)   
   >   
   >   
   BTW, the species number that Hunter was trying to think of is Species 8472   
      
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