Quote:The record holder for longest delay in construction is SCSV Rinna K, contracted in 2014 and not delivered until 2022.Well, it was the second Block II ship to be contracted - obviously, Starfleet was using it as a testbed while StellviaCorp recruited its crew (and Noah & A.C. built ship's shuttle/fighter pilot H. Amano). I doubt EXFOR would have tolerated Starfleet using It Was Like That When I Got Here as a frame to test new ideas during construction.
This of course means that the Rinna K has a few "bugs" in its systems compared to the other Block IIs. Not good for Starfleet's purposes, but good for storytelling...
(Ah, yes - just because the ship's computer sounds like Majel Barrett doesn't mean the crew is going to call it "Computer", "Ms. Chapel", or "M'Ress". The first is rude in the Stellvian culture, and the other two are more appropriate for a Starfleet ship. They'll call her "Dr. Bradley"... and expect her to take an active role in the research.)
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Rob Kelk
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