First Contact - Enterprise-D Intro (Venture Variant)

[bladela]

Everyone was doing it, to great effect - the Italians turned the Andrea Doreas from next to useless to modern fast battleships, the Japanese turned the Kongos from battlecruisers into fast battleships, the UK transformed Renown and gave the QEs a new lease of life (especially QE herself and Valiant), and the US rebuilt the near-useless Standard-type Pearl Harbour wrecks into the battle line that won Surigao Strait.

The Andrea Doria was a rather weak fast battleship, inferior to the ship against which they would likely have been deployed, the Queen Elizabeths, for about the same cost of a brand new Littorio class.

QEs upgrade was far less extensive,at least for the main machinery and armaments.

[McAvoy]

There is something to be said about physical limitations. The US heavily rebuilt three Standard types during WW2 to the point they were near equal to the South Dakota class except speed. You could also argue that they had the best anti torpedo protection of any US Battleship due to their 114 foot beam, the widest of any US battleship not named Montana class.

Hell they looked like a South Dakota class but with four turrets.

Their physical size prevented them from gaining any kind of meaningful speed let alone reaching from 21 to 27 knots.

You could argue that the Galaxy class has the size to any modifications to make her on par with more modern designs.

[Graham Kennedy]

The trouble is that if they made their Explorer starships any bigger than the Galaxy, they wouldn't be able to fit through the Panama canal...

[AlexMcpherson79]

Where's that damn like button, haha.