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From: morgan@h-sc1.UUCP (windsor morgan)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Starships
Message-ID: <910@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 23:53:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 23:53:09 1986
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> >Heavy Cruisers are the largest.  The dreadnought class never got of the ground.
> >Starfleet nixed them before construction began.
> >
> >Steve
> 
> I'm curious where your got your information that the Federation "nixed"
> the dreadnoughts.  I don't recall ever seeing/reading anything about that.
> 
> 			-- Brad Brahms
> 			   usenet: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms
> 			   arpa:   Brahms@usc-eclc

	I remember reading in one of Alan Dean Foster's 'Star Trek Log's'
a story about the computer playing practical jokes on the crew. Toward's the 
end of the story, Our Heroes are up against either Romulans or Klingons and 
the computer saves them by creating a (super?)dreadnought-shaped balloon, which 
the enemies destroy while the Big E runs away before the mistake is realized.
The narrator or Kirk says that this class was never built because Starfleet
thought that so much firepower would never be needed.
-- 
'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'

                             Windsor Morgan
                             Harvard College
                             Cambridge, MA 02138
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