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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Subject: Diplomacy and the Klingon Empire
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 12:35:05 EST
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Quoted from <542@ssc-vax.UUCP> ["Designations of Starships"], by adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)...
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| 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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What do you want?  The Klingons are a belligerent race (I can make arguments
that it may have been necessary for their survival, but they contradict THE
FINAL REFLECTION in a few areas so I'll let someone else figure out why) and
might refer to something liek that as a battle cruiser anyway -- relate ir ro
one of their *own* ship classes rather than invent a new name (or use the
Federation name!) for it.  It seems reasonable thatwhat the Federation would
call a heavy cruiser, the Klingons would call a battle cruiser.  Diplomacy has
nothing to do with it; it's for ease of reference, using terms everybody (in
the Klingon Empire) already knows.

--Brandon
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