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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] Oh, boy, did I open up a real can of worms... I may get swatted for doing this again, but I want to say that the Encyclopedia is canon!!! So are the other official reference materials including the TNG and DS9 Technical Manuals, the Chronologies, episode Companions, and the Fact Files. That's not to say that they're all 100% accurate all of the time, but they are legitimate parts of canon Trek. 'Starship' is a term that has shifted in meaning since TOS. In TOS, it meant a specific type of ship. You could equate it to the term 'battleship' in today's Navy. (A ship with the heaviest armor and largest guns.) But by the 24th century, it means more 'warship' (again, equating to our terms) meaning basically any ship in the Navy. Okuda exclusively uses the 24th century terminology, so that's why he calls the Antares and "Antares-class starship." That doesn't mean it would have been called a Starship in the 23rd century. Furthermore, the info for the Antares (including the U.S.S. and the NCC) and the Hermes (and pretty much all other ships) are from one of various ship display charts seen on the bridge and elsewhere in TNG. Okuda has said that this is where most all of the info in the Encyc first appeared. What he used to do was create charts of Federation ships, mostly those which had been seen or mentioned in the past, and use them as displays in the show. So, if you really want to get picky, all of that info [i]has[/i] appeared on the screen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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