re: #152 Kruk

Star Fleet never built warships until the Borg Invasion. Even then, the prototype (the Defiant) got shelved once the Borg threat became less urgent, and didn’t get taken out of mothballs till Starfleet encountered the Dominion.

Even then, they wouldn’t call the Defiant a warship, but rather an “escort.” Had to keep that thin veil that Starfleet was a scientific organization first, military second.

BTW, Targert Practice, Worst of Both Worlds, is your nick related to the TNG episode where the Borg invaded (The Best of Both Worlds), or to it’s Mirror universe couterpart short story (The Worst of Both Worlds)?

Little of column A, little of column B.