Here are my thoughts.  alyx gave me free reign on how the McNair was set up.<br/><br/>Weapons are minimal to normal Nova.<br/><br/>Crew is decreased by 25%.<br/><br/>We wanted to go into the future a bit and make exciting the McNair with some not standard systems, thus the power to fuel the Gatekeeper and the extra to make the rest exciting considering the mission.<br/><br/>Science vessel utmost priority, cause we don't know whats on the other sides of these anomalies, thus we are still exploring.  We don't know whats out there, so we upgrade our smaller defense capability by going top of the line and oh, wait, we are fast and mult iphasic shielded...  so we can run.  Anyone of you all willing to tell me how much fight a single quantum torpedo tube can place forward that isn't rapid fire? Not much.  Watch the episodes, the defiant, just for instances has four rapid fire tubes forward.<br/><br/>Starfleet is protecting there investment and is point blank making a cost effective analysis on the design of the McNair.<br/><br/>Here in is my two cents.<br/><br/>Oh, and on the side, McNair cant make it all happen at one time just because super dense dilithium provides twice the output, but to make all the systems on board able to handle the increased power, we have to be able to handle that power to the systems.  I will help adjudicate these issues, but I cant and wont say right now what systems can run full and what cant.  By all means, just because the power is there, doesn't mean it can run all at full power all the time, that just doesn't make ANY sense.