Starship Museums: why?

[Morpheus 02]

I find it hard to believe the one from SFS is the first BOP the Federation has "acquired". It is however one of historical significance. So I can see it in a museum.

Indeed...i also don't kow what technological significance it has other than the cloaking device. It'd be like if the US recovered a soviet warship...unless it was the sub from the Crimson Tide, not sure what they would really learn from a Klingon scout ship.

So for the Defiant A.... is it possible it was involved in many other skirmishes, which might have damaged it to the point of not worth repairing (i.e. a whole new ship would be worth it)?


is there is a list of the ships in the Museum?

And for it being a Museum...i wonder if it's more for specific Starfleet personnel and cadets.... so Geordi's project might have been a "training exercise" where he essentially used interns to rebuildi 1701-D.

 

[Nerys Myk]

And for it being a Museum...i wonder if it's more for specific Starfleet personnel and cadets.... so Geordi's project might have been a "training exercise" where he essentially used interns to rebuildi 1701-D.

Sounds about right. They also had to pick up his laundry and walk his dog.

 

[HotRod]

is there is a list of the ships in the Museum?

 

[BK613]

You can't just move the crashed Ent-D like a car stuck in a ditch.

But Starfleet would remove it, if only for Veridian IV's sake. That planet's population is pre-industrial in GEN but that doesn't mean they will always be. Starfleet is not going to leave a Galaxy class saucer laying around to be found when the Veridians go interplanetary. Prime Directive and all that.

Edie to add: Also, I take it you haven't watched TOS The Cloud Minders recently? The Federation can do very interesting things with anti-gravity.
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And if this Spacedock is the first one, doesn't that give it historical significance and therefore, shouldn't it be in the museum? Of course, but it's too big to be in the museum so it is the museum.
And now you have a reason for moving it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

You can't just move the crashed Ent-D like a car stuck in a ditch.

Same basic principle applies. You use a vehicle and equipment designed for moving the object.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Thanks...i wonder what are some of the back stories of some of these.....also interesting that nothing from NCC-001 to NCC-1700.... unless thos eships are inside the Museum's spacedock?

(Well the Wersching in honor of Anne Wersching who died in 2023)

 

[The Wormhole]

These shows are not a real-life treatise on the military,

Whoever thought Star Trek was about the military?

 

[BK613]

also interesting that nothing from NCC-001 to NCC-1700.... unless those ships are inside the Museum's spacedock

There is a USS Pioneer NCC-1500 on the 'Lower Ring' list.

 

[HotRod]

I wonder what they kept inside.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I wonder what they kept inside.

Uniforms. Lots and lots of uniforms. So many uniforms.

 

[Dukhat]

I wonder what they kept inside.

All the FASA ships, the Star Fleet Battles ships, the ships from the '90's video games, the '80's comics...

 

[fireproof78]

I wonder what they kept inside.

Voyager's shuttles.

 

[BK613]

Uniforms. Lots and lots of uniforms. So many uniforms.

Given how often Starfleet changes the uniforms, there is probably a museum wing for each decade...

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Starfleet revolves around exploration and learning. So of course they'd want to preserve their own history. Seeing the workings of famous ships would be of particular interest to engineers, pilots and starship architects.

 

[LunaMaiden]

It was something already being portrayed in Star Trek: Enterprise Starfleet was always improving on their ships. Always improving on the technology. So what do you do with the retired ships that are a part of its rich history certainly don't send them to scrap so open a museum. As for the original Defiant being there no doubt it was retired for an upgraded state of the art model which still patrols Bajor let's remember this is taking place decades after the events in DS9.