Thank you vedde much.Great reply USS_Triumphant!
There was something else that I thought about mentioning in the post, but it hasn't happened yet and maybe won't, so I didn't: Does anyone else get the feeling that the Intel website tie-in for XI is going to lead to it being implied that they have something to do with the ships' computers? That would be consistent with the idea that the computers on NX-01 were made by Apple (since they use Intel chips). (I still really wish I could find a reference for that one, dang it!)