>In a way this was even a little more epic than I was expecting. I was
>sort of expecting a mothballed or museum ship trade, something that
>had to be rebuilt from basically they frame up, not a still functional
>ship.

The Connie kai ni remodel is basically that anyway, given how radical the changes between TV and movie Enterprise were. Plus, she was at the end of a long deployment and would have needed an extensive refit regardless. There wasn't really much practical difference, in terms of work required, between what they started with and a museum ship, other than the absence of cobwebs. :)

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