Talk:Starbase

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A starbase is a facility where starships are maintained and resupplied, and crews can relax. A starbase can be a research station, a military base, a place for interstellar trade or a seat of administration. Some starbases are also involved in the construction of starships.

Hmmm. Actually I am having some problems with accepting this as the canonical Star Trek definiton of starbase. I think that to be fair it needs to be cut down to "A permanent Starfleet Facility". I think there is enough on the show to justify it being used for medical purposes and rendering assistance to starships, but it isn't even clear if that is the 'purpose' of a starbase or a side-effect. The business of it being built for military, research purposes etc. is not confirmed, although it fair to say those things happen on a starbase. 64.229.115.178 05:21, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

I believe that what is written is a fair assessment of starbases based on what we know. -- Dmsdbo 13:52, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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The pictures on this article make the artacle seem like "starbase" is a federation-only term.can we replace juppiter station (not all that well known) with somthing like DS9 or Ty'go'kor?– 7th Tactical 20:18, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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Wait a minute... Is jupiter station a starbase? --Tribble 1771561 21:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes. It doesn't have to have starbase in its name in order to be one, such as Deep Space 9. --31dot 21:27, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Space Station and Starbase

I am just wondering if I have grasped the difference of the terms here, space station is the naming for the fixed installation, such as saying Starship for the vessels, with Starbases being a type (as we've seen starbases being purely fixed installations)--Terran Officer 04:57, 24 May 2009 (UTC)