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From: ccastkv@gitpyr.UUCP (KEITH VAGLIENTI)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Starships
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 11:29:28 EST
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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.
>>> 
>
>	Although perhaps not an 'official' source, the dreadnought
>class (as well as all the other classes, like the scout and the cargo
>ship) is described in the Star Trek Technical Manual (check the
>title, but that's the basic idea.) The Technical Manual does say that
>the dreadnought class was never built, however. I'm not sure who
>wrote this book, but I have never seen a dreadnought or heard one
>mentioned in any episode.

The dreadnought's only video appearance was in the animated episode, "Practical
Joker" in which the ship's computer fabricates a life size balloon of a ship, just
like the one in the Technical Manual, that Sulu identifies as a dreadnought. Sulu
also says that the ship was never put into production because it was far larger than
anything the Federation needed.

-- 
Keith Conrad Vaglienti
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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