Starship Platform Lifespans

[Dukhat]

Remember in ST:PRO, the USS ProtoStar had a Alien System Virus / Malware that wasn't easily defeat-able and could easily transmit to other StarFleet ships.

We all know how they solved the problem if you watched the show.

What if there was some sort of Malware that wouldn't be easily remove-able or defeat-able unless you took extreme measures like decommissioning the vessel.

Who knows what the Monfette Gambit did to the vessel.

Alien Malware might not just be "Lines of Code", but could be something more intrusive, physical, or difficult to defeat.

We saw what Iconian Malware did to the USS Yamato.

Who knows what other kinds of Alien Malware is out there.

Yet the ship was still intact enough for Shelby to fly around in it for Frontier Day, and intact enough for it to attack Starbase 1 with all the other ships. So whatever was wrong with it didn’t seem to be that big a deal.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Yet the ship was still intact enough for Shelby to fly around in it for Frontier Day, and intact enough for it to attack Starbase 1 with all the other ships. So whatever was wrong with it didn’t seem to be that big a deal.

Yet they were still going to decommission the vessel at 15 years of age, that's fairly young for a StarShip of any type.
So it must've been something very severe for StarFleet to do that to such a young vessel.

 

[Dukhat]

Yet they were still going to decommission the vessel at 15 years of age, that's fairly young for a StarShip of any type.
So it must've been something very severe for StarFleet to do that to such a young vessel.

Then one would think that it would be a bad idea to fly the ship around if it had something that severely wrong with it.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Then one would think that it would be a bad idea to fly the ship around if it had something that severely wrong with it.

It was scheduled for it's "Final Flight" before entering the DeCommissioning Process on "Frontier Day".

Then we all know what happened when the Borg Incident occured.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I think with the Enterprise-F, her early decommissioning may have been more due to "economics" than anything else. Starfleet seemed to be moving towards smaller designs with more similar design elements like the Neo-Constitution-class, the Duderstadt-class, and the Sagan-class. As such, the now over-sized Odyssey-class may have quickly gone out of style and Starfleet may have decided to just retire her than spend resources properly fixing a ship that no longer fit its new design philosophy, IMO.

 

[Dukhat]

It was scheduled for it's "Final Flight" before entering the DeCommissioning Process on "Frontier Day".

"Admiral Shelby, we need you to take the Enterprise-F out for its final flight before we decommission her. However, there's a slight chance that she might explode. Actually, maybe a little more than a slight chance...Well, to tell you the truth, there's a pretty big chance. It might even explode before you even get it out of Spacedock. With the critical systems failures, and all. But it's Frontier Day, and Starfleet is willing to take that chance. Good luck!"

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

"Admiral Shelby, we need you to take the Enterprise-F out for its final flight before we decommission her. However, there's a slight chance that she might explode. Actually, maybe a little more than a slight chance...Well, to tell you the truth, there's a pretty big chance. It might even explode before you even get it out of Spacedock. With the critical systems failures, and all. But it's Frontier Day, and Starfleet is willing to take that chance. Good luck!"

We saw how the USS Defiant went out before it was fully ready, they had Nog relaying orders down to engineering.

So it wouldn't be the first time they were running a ship that wasn't fully "Ship Shape & Ready to Go".

And for a simple "Parade Run" before hitting the DeCommission depot, I wouldn't be surprised if StarFleet Upper brass thought it was fine for a "Parade Run", it's not like they were anticipating a Terrorist Attack.

I doubt it was going to explode or anything dramatic, might lose power and go a drift or something silly like that.
But I highly doubt the Admiral was in danger from the Vessel exploding on itself.