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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Then again, as long as they don't have a starship type they would actually call "destroyer" or "battleship" or "demolisher" or "conqueror" or "mass murderer", they can quite nicely argue that their ships aren't warships. A "frigate" or a "cruiser" sounds innocuous enough, since there's nothing really warlike about cruising or, uh, frigging. ("What are those big phasers for, if this isn't a warship?" "Mmm, digging holes into asteroids?" "Oh, okay.") As for the Norway, if she doesn't have phaser strips or torpedo tubes or portholes or lifeboats or shuttlebays, the most natural assumption IMHO would be that she's a transport vessel. Those won't need much in the way of windows or weapons, but a big featureless monobloc hull would be expected. And traditionally, Trek transports have looked quite unlike Trek warships, so the exotic appearance of the Norway would be nicely explained, too. From what we saw, the Norways didn't play much of a role in the battle - only two of them there, and only one seen firing a weapon (which some claim must have been a superphaser, but I say it could have been a puny type IV beam just as well). Starfleet had Oberths in anti-Borg battles, too. Why not a large military transport or two? Or, if one wants to pay attention to the variable-geometry nacelles but doesn't want to say this is an experimental vessel, one could say the Norway is a tug. Those would have to have reconfigurable warp fields in order to extend their fields over ships in tow. The longitudal booms to which the nacelle pylons are attached could also be some sort of rails for carrying cargo containers or barges. Ever see a real-world barge carrier? The Norway looks quite a bit like one. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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