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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
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Subject: Designations of Starships
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:52:45 EST
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*** YOUR MESSAGE ***

> Another point.  The Federation is, as a whole, a peaceful group.  Battleship
> is an awfully military term, and perhaps calling the Enterprise a heavy 
> cruiser gives the Federation a few diplomatic points.  I belive this point was
> brought up in one of the unofficial novels.  After all, if the Enterprise can
> trash any given Klingon ship in battle, and they know it, what does it matter
> if it's called a heavy cruiser, a PT boat, or _GOD'S_WRATH_PERSONIFIED_?

In one of the episodes or one of the movies, didn't the Klingons refer
to the Big E as "a Federation Battle Cruiser"?  I seem to recall a group
of Klingons hunched around a sensor readout.  Seems like the Empire
isn't impressed with the Federation's diplomatic posturing.

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