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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Well, yeah. I was just talking randomly, it seems. At the same time, we've heard the term "hopper" attached to a couple of really different-sounding vehicles. A civilian space-coupe and a military transport, among others, if I recall correctly. Perhaps it's 24th century slang for any dedicated surface-to-orbit vehicle? (The Space Shuttle would be a hopper, Apollo would not, even though both can go from the ground to orbit and back (albeit in rather different ways)). Or perhaps hoppers are more like proposed hypersonic ramjet flights from New York to Tokyo, with brief-exoatmospheric excursions along the top of their flights. In other words, vehicles primarily devoted to getting things from planet-point A to planet-point B, with escape velocity capabilities (since, really, what can't reach escape velocity in Star Trek, considering how compact some of those engines are) but not dedicated to a more general purpose mission profile like your average John Q. Shuttlecraft. I suspect I've gotten a little far afield with this. Anyway, in my definition a hopper wouldn't have warp drive, which this shuttle appears to have. Or do my eyes decieve me? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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