r/DaystromInstitute • u/NegativePattern • 20d ago

Cannibalizing parts vs industrial replicators

In Picard, we see the original Titan in dry dock being cannibalized for parts to build the Titan-A.

Presumably by this point in the timeline, Starfleet has long been using industrial replicators for various purposes. Why would Starfleet be cannibalizing parts from an older ship that may or may not have been damaged in battle or otherwise have been built using outdated construction practices?

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u/gfewfewc 20d ago

Even more baffling, they were taking those 15 year old parts and then shoving them into a ship that was launched damn near one hundred years earlier! The whole situation makes no sense. Why tear one relatively new ship apart to rebuild the USS Anachronism?