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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Aban Rune: [QB] Black Night: I suppose you're right. There is evidense of special dispensation being given in starship naming. I suppose this could be the case and it's the best resolution of the problem that I've heard. Timo: I will have to respectfully disagree with you about the differences between runabouts and shuttles. The difference in exterior design may be slight. In shape and style, yes, Danubes are big shuttles. However, in purpose and abilities, they far exceed shuttlecraft. They have swappable mission pods and those rollbar pods which give the Danubes something not found on shuttles: mission adaptablility. Shuttles are pretty much shuttles. Yes they can be adapted for specific tasks as they did in "The Outcast" to search for the missing ship. But just think how much better and safer and more efficient it would have been if Riker and the alien chickkie would have had all the resources of a small starship at their disposal. Danubes are also designed to operate for extended periods independant of any sort of mothership. True we have never seen them as independant commands, they seem to always be attached to a starbase or (if we believe my arguement) other starships. In every way IMHO, Danubes seem to be designed as Starships, very different from shuttles in purpose. Now I agree that Runabouts have probably been around in some form for a little while at least. However, I take Sisko's line in "Emissary" that the Enterprise had offloaded "three Runabout Class vessels" instead of Danube class, to show his unfamiliarity with this type of ship. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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