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Beginning: Starfleet faces repeated demands of increased performance of both its war fleet and exploration forces; the numbers of new ships stays low and the performance is still barely on par with Klingon weapons technology.^[1]

Beginning: The established, but confidential, doctrine for the defense of the UFP is abandoning of the colonies and focusing on the defense of the core worlds, above all.^[1]

Early: The Klingon threat is escalating, though it will ebb and flow through this and the next decade.^[2]^[3]

There are no resources for building starbases at the rate required to support operations on the faraway Klingon border.^[2]

The Mann and Ranger class light cruisers form Starfleet’s main defense against the Klingons, ‘holding the fort’ until ships designed from the outset to oppose the warrior empire are fielded.^[4]

Mid-decade: Starfleet finally has projects ongoing on all the types of warship it needs for halting a potential Klingon invasion.^[5]

The Baton Rouge heavy cruisers and Detroyat and Saladin destroyers start replacing the Manns and Rangers in the contested Federation/Klingon space.^[6]

Starfleet struggles to find a suitable replacement for the PB-21 nacelle for the Burke series frigates.^[7]

Starfleet decides the stratagem of quality over missing quantity is proven insufficient: the two main lines of destroyers are spread too thin on the battlefronts to amass to decisive strength and the cruisers are in the wrong place in the wrong time.^[8]

By this decade, most Texas class light cruisers are relegated to in-system, sublight patrol duty.^[9]

The last Y class transports cease operation in the Federation (per official records) this decade.^[10]

The remaining Ganges class destroyers (long grounded) are scrapped for construction materials.^[11]

The Watt class fleet tanker/transports are ordered de-commissioned and sold for scrap.^[12]

The Ariadne class patrol corvettes (and its subclasses) are collectively painted more subdued colors and sensor-absorbing coatings, in order to better hide from aggressors.^[13]

Several partial studies that examine a conversion of the Kovaris light destroyers into scouts are conducted.^[15]

The last convoy operations are held to counter Klingon border raids, until exercises in the mid-2260s.^[16]

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 * '''Beginning''': The established, but confidential, doctrine for the defense of the [[UFP]] is abandoning of the colonies and focusing on the defense of the core worlds, above all.<ref name=BonaventureTest/>
-* The Klingon threat was escalating in the early part of the decade, though it ebbs and flows through this and the [[2230s|next]] decade.<ref name=Ptolemy>[[Guide: Ptolemy]]</ref><ref name=Ishinomaki>[[Guide: Ishinomaki]]</ref>
+* '''Early''': The Klingon threat is escalating, though it will ebb and flow through this and the [[2230s|next]] decade.<ref name=Ptolemy>[[Guide: Ptolemy]]</ref><ref name=Ishinomaki>[[Guide: Ishinomaki]]</ref>
 * There are no resources for building starbases at the rate required to support operations on the faraway Klingon border.<ref name=Ptolemy/>