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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships uses or used a classification system based on weight alone to clear up clashes between different nations' classification systems. The 1945 edition actually lists what constitutes heavy, medium, and light armament for each nation's navy. It is relatively easy to see what category a ship will fall into if you know the design methodology of the period and have a vast range of ships to look at. (For example, if you page through Jane's, most frigates, cruisers, etc. share a similar sort of gunnery arrangement, superstructure, and hull line within each category.) However, we don't have that in the Star Trek Universe. Instead, we have a relatively small range of ships with radically different design concepts, which is acceptable given the constraints of the series and the fact that, well, space is vast. But it doesn't help us one bit in classifying ships. We have no standard for comparison. So we must fall back on armament, defense, which primary systems take precedence (i.e. science vs. tactical), and so on. But in my opinion, even this doesn't help, because Star Trek vessels have such a wide range of mission compatibility. They are extremely flexible. We have seen Oberths mostly as science vessels and then in major battles. We have seen Mirandas doing everything from research, to battleship-style duty, to cargo hauling. With this in mind, I just don't see utilizing present-day classification systems as viable in classifying Starfleet vessels. Who knows? Maybe we'll see an Akira someday as a medical ship, shuttling medicine to a planet in distress? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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