A viewer proposes that the Federation could draw down border forces while retaining a machine able to reproduce complete ships. Starfleet's lack of deeper investment in that capability is surprising. Energy consumption and ethical difficulties are serious obstacles, though neither makes the idea worthless. This reframes a reserve fleet as industrial mobilization, with strategic depth held in production infrastructure as well as inactive hulls.
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A starship replicator instead of a mothball fleet
The idea of storing production capacity rather than finished hulls raises a different reserve-fleet model, constrained by power demand and ethical questions.