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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] In summary, the general opinion on why "peacetime/wartime" is crap is because the wartime designations are neither... <ul> [*]...necessary to distinguish ships in combat situations from one another because the standard set of classifications (explorers-cruisers-frigates etc.) most likely reflects tactical ability and power output as well as the nature of the ship's equipment, operations range and common mission types. nor [*]...in keeping with the Roddenberrian vision of Starfleet as only a vaguely military organization that shuns violence whenever possible. How peaceful in character is a starfleet that talks about deploying "battleships" and "gunboats." nor [*]...even vaguely alluded as the system that Starfleet, be it onscreen evidence or in technical manuals or by Sternbach et al online. </ul></ul></ul> I'm sick of this thread, too. If Frank was here, I'd be really sick of this thread. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]

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