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From: ins_akew@jhunix.UUCP (Montgomery Scott)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Starships
Message-ID: <1704@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 17:38:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 17:38:06 1986
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Organization: Honest Jim's Used Heavy Cruisers
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> >>	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?
> Heavy Cruisers are the largest.  The dreadnought class never got of the ground.
> Starfleet nixed them before construction began.

 I once read somewhere that the "USS Federation" was the largest starship.

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