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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Final Say
Message-ID: <163@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 23:09:10 EST
Article-I.D.: moncol.163
Posted: Mon Feb  3 23:09:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 02:46:55 EST
References: <380@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1258@gitpyr.UUCP> <2544@ukma.UUCP> <1140@cvl.UUCP> <11633@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <848@umd5.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
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Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
Lines: 41
Keywords: Diane Duane
Summary: Maybe... maybe not

In article <848@umd5.UUCP> don@umd5.UUCP (Chris Sylvain) writes:
>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.

In her novel, MY ENEMY, MY ALLY, Diane Duane makes reference to a
destroyer-class starship named the Inaieu. To quote from page 45:

	  Inaieu, as one of the destroyer-class starships, had
	been built large; built to carry a lot of people on very
	long hauls, and built to carry more power and more 
	amament than any three starships- just in case. Her
	upper-hull disk was three times the size of Enterprise's;
	her engine nacelles twice as long, and there were four
	of them- one above, two on the sidesm one below. Her
	central engineering hull was a quarter-mile in diameter,
	and a mile long.


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