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From: m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: Final Say
Message-ID: <1944@rayssd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 12:27:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 12:27:14 1986
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Sender: m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI)
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Keywords: destroyer, cruiser

In article <163@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) writes:
> 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.

 	The above passage proves to me that Diane Duane does know
too much about naval vessels.  The majority of the people who post
to this group assume that Star Fleet is based on the US Navy (i.e.,
ranks, ship names, ship classes).  If this assumption is true, then
why would they call a ship a destroyer when it is obviously bigger
than a heavy cruiser.  US destroyers are smaller than cruisers in
compliment and size.

Joe Barone,	{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
Raytheon Co,	Submarine Signal Div., 1847 West Main Rd, Portsmouth, RI 02871