According to TNG tech manual, the plan was to replace the Oberth with the Galaxy. First off that makes me wonder why they even bothered building the Nova. The DS9 Tech Manual claim that the Nova was the replacement to the Galaxy and Oberth but that makes no sense what-so-ever. The Galaxy was by far ...

I agree completely.

While having interchangeable components like that would be a huge boost to logistics, we couldn't expect Starfleet design to show that much forethought. Mikey, I wasn't talking about the similar looking saucer for the Nebula-Galaxy. I was talking about the fact that you said we shouldn't expect the...

Mikey I'm not sure why they wouldn't give "that much forethought." According to DITL they gave that much forethought when they built the Oberth class, and had to have similar forethought for the massive production run and refit of the Miranda class. Production, deployment, operations and s...

Here is what I'm reading, and how I'm going to piece it together. Once again for the Galaxy Class of Ship. In the early 2340's (2343?) the technology and system development for the Galaxy Class began. In the late 2340's (2348?) the Galaxy class design, down to the smallest component, was completed. ...

Right! Well I think in the Defiant they found a ship that they could build start to finish in less than a year which made it very desirable considering the Dominion threat. Let us take the Galaxy Class ship. The first ship was completed in 2357, and it was not commissioned until 2362. When did they ...

DarkOmen excellent response. The Galaxy Class appears to agree with DarkOmen's answer. The Galaxy was launched in 2357 and not commissioned in 2362. But the Defiant Class of ship seems to contradict this information. The Defiant was a prototype ... i.e. it was a test platform. It was sent into comba...

I have several questions about Production and Commissioning. When is a ship commissioned? Is this when the prototype is first fielded? Or is it when the first ship of the class comes off the production line? Does DITL include an initial "low rate" production before entering a "full&qu...