Their layover for repairs predates its destruction. Was it that specific ship name or the continuity of mentioning this name twice that surprised you?
Hey, I never noticed that before....
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I was just surprised at it's mention at that time in the series. Also, it isn't stated that it's an all-Vulcan ship until "The Immunity Syndrome."
The gap between the two episodes is ~1350 stardates, or ~ 1 year, 4 months, in-universe. In real world, the airdate gap is ~11 months. So, we have either the Intrepid is already staffed by ~400 Vulcans (is the Captain Human such as 'Science' Captain Krasnovsky or Vulcan?; probably Vulcan since the environmental conditions would be very hot and thin air - but that's a different discussion.
), or sometime over the next year, the Intrepid is assigned to be crewed by Vulcan much like the Enterprise being crewed by Earth. I think the later is more feasible since during Court Martial, Starfleet was still under United Earth (UE), and a few episodes later, The United Federation of Planets (UFP) was ginned up and became the new governance for Starfleet. YMMV 
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