Re: Andromeda and Salute figures

If you watch the first pilot: the managere (however you spell it...)
There are two scenes of importance.  One near the beginning, and one
near
the end.

The first: The crew has just beamed down, and were greeting the
colonists.
>From the crew's statements, there was an earlier (and slower)
stardrive.
They were implying that the Enterprize's warp drive is compleatly new.
This seems to say that the Enterprize was among the first few ships to
have
the new warp drive.

The second: At the end, Captain Pike makes orders to go. Spock then says
something like "prepair hyper drive".  This seems to imply that the
Enterprize still has it's older drive (or at least some of the
components...).

These two scenes seem to suggest that the "constelation class starships"
were a new class of ships put in service a few years before the warp
drive
was ready.  So the Enterprize was probably an upgrade of its old "hyper
drive".

In the classic series...(ie Kirk and friends.) Scotty is seen doing all
kinds of things to the Enterprize's poor old warp drive.  This also
suggests a couple of things...Scotty may have had something to do with
the
warp drive's development(IMHO)...That the Federation Starfleet was
limiting
the warpdrive to the 12 existing ships of the constelation class, until
it
was fully understood.

It seems to me IMHO that starfleet was much bigger than 12 ships.  The
federation just couldn't handle it's busness with so few ships.  During
the
classic series the rest of Starfleet was ran by this "hyper drive".

What does all this mean to me?
That the federation only issued a few warp powered ships, until they
could
trust the engine/power system.

Donald Hosford
(I just love having these things on video...)

Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
(snippage)

> The Enterprise was
> originally supposed to be a cruiser-class ship, but was later
> "upgraded" to "starship" class to make it that bit more special, and
> the number in the fleet was set at a microscopic 12 to explain their
> scarcity.
>

(snippage)

> ----
> "If you let a smile be your umbrella... you'll get wet teeth!"
>   -- a forgotten comedian, quoted by me: Phil Atcliffe