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*** But it would yield salvageable parts: maybe enough to justify the added effort, maybe not, but no one even ran a cost-benefit analysis. They just said "Get rid of it."
*** But it would yield salvageable parts: maybe enough to justify the added effort, maybe not, but no one even ran a cost-benefit analysis. They just said "Get rid of it."
**** Salvageable parts? From an 80-year-old ship? In a society that has REPLICATORS? ... yah, I vote photon torpedo too.
**** Salvageable parts? From an 80-year-old ship? In a society that has REPLICATORS? ... yah, I vote photon torpedo too.
***** The Federation does, for some stupid reason, use parts from Miranda ships to make the even less impressive Centaur. But probably only spare parts that are sitting around a storeroom anywhere, certainly not plague ship parts. Besides, it would probably be vastly more respectful to the ship's crew to give them a funeral in such a manner, rather than shuffling their corpses through quarantine before disintegrating them and then proceeding to disassemble their home to save a couple of ergs of energy.
** This came up in one of the William Shatner novels, however you want to take those. Spock claims that the relative cost of producing starships is so low as to be virtually negligible. In a society where everything short of exotic matter can be converted from energy, a plague ship is better as space-dust than risking exposure by towing it in for decon.
** This came up in one of the William Shatner novels, however you want to take those. Spock claims that the relative cost of producing starships is so low as to be virtually negligible. In a society where everything short of exotic matter can be converted from energy, a plague ship is better as space-dust than risking exposure by towing it in for decon.
*** Star Trek Online certainly took this and ran with it... starships really are a dime a dozen, and you can transfer to them and modify them largely at will, all you've got to do is pay the energy cost of the replicator usage somehow.
*** Star Trek Online certainly took this and ran with it... starships really are a dime a dozen, and you can transfer to them and modify them largely at will, all you've got to do is pay the energy cost of the replicator usage somehow.
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