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• Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When starships are decommissioned, do they just defang them and sell them to commercial interests, as is often the practice in SciFi, or do they scuttle them, as is common practice for combat vessels IRL?

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I dunno what the standard practice is, but Geordie has a museum of fully functional, and apparently armed, ships. At the very least he rebuilt the Enterprise D over the last 20 years, and managed to get her operational from just the bridge with a command crew only.

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sure it’s to make him appear impressive, but I would find it both more believable (resource cost alone) and endearing if the fleet were 1:100 fully functional scale models, like what Tendi and Rutherford were building (which was more like 1:350).

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        He basically admits that he’s been picking over both battlegrounds and boneyards to create these 1:1 replicas. He said that the saucer had to be recovered because of The Prime Directive, apparently there was a native pre-warp species on the planet they crashed the saucer section onto, and the nacelles, pylons, and warp core came from the wreck of the NCC Saratoga (?). I suspect that would be the entire Battle Section of The Saratoga, since the Battle Section of The Enterprise was thoroughly destroyed, so that includes the main deflector dish, main engineering, the engine room, and something like 7 decks of the ship.

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    THE THORN MAN LIVES

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Cheers! And happy new year!

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