Enterprise-A Questions

[BillJ]

By 2401, the Enterprise-D is "Archaic"…

Which doesn’t make a lick of sense when the Galaxy is supposed to last a century with regular refits.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Which doesn’t make a lick of sense when the Galaxy is supposed to last a century with regular refits.

Refits which it wasn't getting, and StarFleet found "Shiny New StarShip Classes" to put their Time/Effort into along with new tech.

Some StarShip classes won't make it because StarFleet found the "Shiny New Toy" to work on.

 

[Ithekro]

The Enterprise-D had not been given any refits as it was to be a museum piece and long-term project by LaForge. There may be other Galaxy-class starships out there, or even some upgraded to Ross-class standards, but the Enterprise was not upgraded more than whatever upgrades the USS Syracuse had prior to being salvaged by LaForge. That the Syracuse doesn't have upper phasers on the nacelles it didn't have the combat upgrades like USS Venture.

 

[Dukhat]

By 2401, the Enterprise-D is "Archaic", the UFP have already gone through several generations of Tech improvement.

It's not about the ship, it's about the name. The Enterprise-D defeated the Borg. They could have recommissioned the ship solely for ceremonial sake and not rename another ship that had no real good reason to be renamed.

The Ross Class literally took the Galaxy Class' role in StarFleet.
It's just a Galaxy Class with a Circular Saucer instead of a Elliptical one and a different set of Deflector Dish & Warp Nacelles.

That design is incredibly stupid and makes no logical sense.

Ask Terry Matalas why he wanted to honor that ship so much.

I already know what Matalas's motives were.

I'm talking about throughout Star Trek, there would be Dry Docks / Orbital Shipyards, some where to produce ships.
Manufacturing wouldn't have changed that much from the earlier times in the 23rd century to the future.
We even see it in the 32nd Century that there are Orbital Dry Docks to make new ships.

And yet Starfleet still has hundreds of brand-new ships despite any loss of production from the loss of Utopia Planitia. It's almost like...wait for it...a changed premise from season 1 to season 3.

That is what Twitter is for.

That is even more of a waste of time.

You're a Trek fan that has the right to voice your opinion, you should let him know how you feel.

Terry Matalas doesn't give a shit what I think.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

One thing I recently learned listening to 'The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War' podcast, is that the United States Navy and Army were going to be running into some serious manpower shortages if the war with Japan continued into mid-1946; if the invasion of Japan had gone ahead as planned for Oct-Nov 1945, and the casualty figures were correct.

The United States had the ships and equipment, but finding men to operate them was in short supply.

Yes, the war in Europe and the Atlantic had ended, but those soldiers and sailors were being brought home and demoralized.

The US military wasn't about to send them halfway across the Pacific to fight again.

There was serious talk amongst the upper ranks of the military to lower the recruitment age to 16 and hold a massive draft and take every able bodied male right out of high school.​

 

[Brannigan]

Posted this in the wrong thread…

Here it is…

The Enterprise-A is actually the original Enterprise.

The Enterprise was set to be refit, but Starfleet also started work on the first new Enterprise-subclass ship. As both neared the end, it became clear that the Enterpriserefit wouldn't be ready to launch the class, so the two were flipped. The new build would become the Enterprise NCC-1701, while the Enterprise would be renamed to whatever name that new ship would've been.

However, the refit Enterprise would become a testbed for new technologies over the intervening years. Never actually having an official name though probably having an NX designation.

Then, when Starfleet gets caught over a barrel, not really having a ship to give Kirk and his band of rebels, they pulled the actual refit 1701 off of the testing grounds and gave it to Kirk, to become the 1701-A. Explaining why it was a mess. It was a testbed with tons of conflicting technologies that were never intended to work together over the long term.

So when the seemingly young Enterprise-A is retired at the end of the Battle at Khitomer, it is because it isn't young at all...

I like this theory but I would ammend it slightly as such.
If we want to assume that the E-A was not a renamed ship (and thus would not tarnish another ships history) then it could be that the E-A began lift as a new build.
After the 1701s succesful rebuild in 2271-2273 Starfleet decided to build new "Constitution II" ships. However after completing only one hull (which to suit needs we could say was named "Ti-Ho") the plan to build new Constitutions was scrapped in favor of the emerging Excelsior Program.
THe Ti-Ho Hull was only partially completed and for the next decade served as a testbed for the Excelsior program.
In 2286, needing a replacement for the recently destroyed 1701, Ti-Ho was completed and recommissioned 1701-A. This might explain Scotty's line about it being a new ship: the hull was a decade old but only partially completed.