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The subsiding Borg threat and failed systems tests ( particularly in regard to the ship's overpowered engines ) led the development project to be stalled and the prototype to be mothballed.
Following work done at Deep Space Nine, the class would later go into production with at least a half dozen other ships in service by 2374 and onward.
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