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From: harry@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (& I. Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Final Say
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 02:53:44 EST
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Summary: why heavy cruiser not battleship or ...

In article <1140@cvl.UUCP> kayuucee@cvl.UUCP (Kenneth W. Crist Jr.) writes:
>	Secondly, hopefully the Federation is not in the practice of keeping
>four heavy crusiers together all the time! There were only 12 or 13 (I keep
>getting conflicting information) when they first came out and as the biggest
>ships in the Federation they were very important. 

How could "heavy cruisers" be the "biggest" catagory of ships?  Wouldn't
the largest ships be called "battleships" or "dreadnoughts" or something?