Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Final Say Message-ID: <507@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 08:55:43 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.507 Posted: Wed Feb 5 08:55:43 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:54:32 EST References: <380@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1258@gitpyr.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 35 Keywords: Diane Duane In article <163@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes: >In article <848@umd5.UUCP> don@umd5.UUCP (Chris Sylvain) writes: >>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: > > [almost ridiculous description follows here] > >Name: John Ruschmeyer Avoiding Diane Duane's [percieved] liberties with the Star Trek universe, as of the last film, we may add the Reliant's type, the Science Ship Grissom (saucer with v-pylons to a single booster, like a modified scout a la tech manual), and of course, the new starfleet hq. On a side note, what other shuttle/pods are there besides 1) the bullet-shaped one from STTMP 2) the smoothed-out shuttle seen flying around hq -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "They were the elite, the vanguard of progress. They would take mankind to the heights...and perhaps beyond." -Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End