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Old 02-21-2023, 12:34 AM
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An alternate take on Admiral Morrows blatant error saying that the Enterprise is twenty years old in STIII.


He doesn't even bring up the captains before Kirk. He makes a convincing argument that the age of the ship was reset during the pre-STTMP refit, and thus it can't possibly be twenty years between STTMP and TSFS.


After all, how much of the 1701 actually survived the refit process? The nacelles were replaced, the saucer was replaced. At best the bottom part of the stardrive (the proverbial "keel") survived. How is this the same ship?


For that matter, why was it so important to maintain that the ship in STTMP was the same ship as that in TOS? All we had to be told was that the 1701 was destroyed saving the Federation, and this new ship was named the same to honor it.



Furthermore, you don't need to fall back on the age of the ship to justify scuttling it in TSFS. Khan beat the heck out of it. Ships pre-Defiant just don't shrug off that much weapons fire while unshielded to be recoverable.
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