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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :

Now, before we continue, can I just ask: is this the 5-minute argument or the full half hour?

Frank and ID: please try to avoid continuing on in a private argument you'll never resolve, to the exclusion of anyone else's contributions, or else I'll have to get the hose to separate you! 8)

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Anyway, in response to TSN's post, navies do not put all their frigates into a box, but the ships are still only used in their capacity as warships.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Still used as warships, eh? So, they go around and shoot... what? TWA flights off of New York? UFOs? Swallows?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Yes. Seriously, you know what I mean; patrols and such. Again, they're not used for fishing.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Maybe in peacetime ship captains in the US Navy go and shoot 18 holes of golf of the deck, like in Down Periscope.

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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

Didn't that have a sub? Or not?

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Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

Yes, the movie was based on an ancient WWII sub.

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Posted by Identity Crisis (Member # 67) on :

Well here are the classifications as I see them being used:

Explorer: very large, multi-role, Starfleet (and to a certain extent the Federation) in microcosm. can do everything. Well armed. (Galaxy, Nebula, Sovereign)

Cruiser: medium-large, multi-role, a second rate Explorer including the Explorers of the previous generation. Some specilisation. (Akira, Ambassador, Excelsior, Niagara, Cheyenne)

Scout: small, multi-role, a third rate explorer.
More specilaistaion. (Intrepid, Freedom).

Frigate: medium, patrol/defence. Well armed for their size. (New Orleans, Steamrunner)

Escort: small, escort/defence. (Defiant - not typical, Sabre - I know the DS9 TM says cruiser but according to that book Starfleet has nothing but cruisers)

Surveyor: small-medium, science. Light armament. (Oberth, Olympic)

Add transports, freighters, small craft, etc. as you like. Destroyers may or may not exist in the 24th century. In the 23rd century they are:
Destroyer: small-medium, combat orientated. (Saladin, Abbe, Larson)

In the 23rd century you don't get Explorers but you do get Dreadnoughts, Perimiter Action Ships and the like.

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