[X] UFS Copernicus, named for astronomers and astrophysicists.
I thought the price tag and protype issues would keep the order very low, but this ship, aside from being an excellent explorer, really packs a punch - fast, sturdy and all that jazz.
I'm guessing Starfleets institutional memory is also heavily marked by the Romulan war , with millions dead on Earth, millions more vaporized in the colonies, and large parts of Brazil turned into a nuclear wasteland. It totally makes sense that they'd want as many of these as they could get.