>>716513831
Enterprise D was supposed to show that the federation was in peacetime. It being big and impractical was important from a worldbuilding standpoint.
Normandy SR2 was supposed to be better than the first one because it got one hit ko'd by a bad dragon dildo. It was about showing that everything is being invested into winning the war rather than bureaucrats and wagyu. It sets up ME2 as a more serious and direct go getter game rather than a go find some evidence in the back of a strip club so you can grovel and beg to be given permission to go get the baddie.