The account follows Yamato's archaeological mission, its Iconian computer infection, and its destruction. More importantly, it notes that Enterprise was close enough to assist while both ships operated near the Neutral Zone. If only three Galaxy-class ships were then in service, placing two in the same sensitive region concentrates two-thirds of the class opposite one neighbor. That posture looks less like detached exploration and more like deliberate strategic signalling.
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Yamato: exploration with a frontier message
Yamato's loss near the Romulan frontier is used to question why two of Starfleet's few largest ships were concentrated there in peacetime.