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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 872727" data-attributes="member: 5">I get the feeling there are a lot of ships even outside of our solar system (in Enterpise/ST fiction) because anyone with a decent bank account can have a fairly decent cargo ship and go &quot;long hauling&quot; from colony to colony and amoung the various species that the Vulcans have introduced us to so far.I'd find it hard to believe that there would be more long haulers than there are Starfleet vessels.&nbsp; That'd be like there being more Oil tankers in present day world than there are military vessels and restricting all military vessels to our coastlines even as the oil tankers scoot all over the world.&nbsp; Hmm...&nbsp; Are there more oil tankers?Wouldn't it make more sense that a lot of military Starfleet vessels move between colonies to shuttle around government officials and help make sure that colonial governing bodies has some umph behind their titles?I think they'd also be shuttling diplomats between the planets of other races, too.&nbsp; And some ships would need to be part of that Medical exchange program they've mentioned a number of times, I think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark, post: 872727, member: 5"] I get the feeling there are a lot of ships even outside of our solar system (in Enterpise/ST fiction) because anyone with a decent bank account can have a fairly decent cargo ship and go "long hauling" from colony to colony and amoung the various species that the Vulcans have introduced us to so far. I'd find it hard to believe that there would be more long haulers than there are Starfleet vessels. That'd be like there being more Oil tankers in present day world than there are military vessels and restricting all military vessels to our coastlines even as the oil tankers scoot all over the world. Hmm... Are there more oil tankers? Wouldn't it make more sense that a lot of military Starfleet vessels move between colonies to shuttle around government officials and help make sure that colonial governing bodies has some umph behind their titles? I think they'd also be shuttling diplomats between the planets of other races, too. And some ships would need to be part of that Medical exchange program they've mentioned a number of times, I think. [/QUOTE]

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