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From: mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: starship names
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 23:51:08 EST
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> 	Look at the losses!  At least four ships lost in ~15 years of
> peacetime!  Has the US lost 4 aircraft carriers in the same amount of
> time?  Starfleet must allow total dunderheads to command their ships!
> :-= (Gnashing of teeth!) :-)
> 

Well, during World War II, the U.S. lost the Lexington, Yorktown,
Hornet, and Wasp that I know of off the top of my head-- all front line
carriers.  Besides, exploration of unknown territory is
intrinsically hazardous, and, at least in the Star Trek universe, there
are so many different groups who are belligerently disposed towards
visitors in one way or another that the situation can hardly be
described as peacetime.

Tho, of course, only the Enterprise had the writers on her side to
come up with a brilliant solution before the last commercial, but
even that has changed, hasn't it?  <Sigh>

Actually, I would suspect that in a real universe, you might not
know which ships are destroyed and which aren't.  Some of them would
just disappear, and never turn up.

Mark Modig
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