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From: don@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Final Say
Message-ID: <848@umd5.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 11:20:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 11:20:37 1986
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Reply-To: don@umd5.UUCP (Chris Sylvain)
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In article <11633@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> harry@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu.UUCP writes:
>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?

Up until STIII, the largest ship that was ever mentioned (to my knowledge)
was the Constellation-class heavy cruiser. I do not recall any references to
any larger or smaller ships, although I may have forgotten them. (Such as the
old freighter Woden). Only in the Star Trek Reference Manual do we see such
ships as the Dreadnought, Destroyer, and Tug. However, in the "offical" world
of Star Trek, the new Excelsior-class battleship is the only other "class"
ship that I have seen.
 

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