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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [qb] [QUOTE]2) Starship Class does not "define the generic erm for what it is, a starship". The word "Starship" does that. Ignoring the "Runabout Class" (the Danube Class Runabout is the only Class of Runabout, and so it could be called the only Runabout Class - the same is not true of the Connie), have you ever heard anything like "freighter class", "aircraft carrier class", "frigate class", or "starship class" used in dialogue in ST or in real life? As I have said about a billion times, X Class means one thing, and one thing only - the class of ships of which X was the first.[/qb][/QUOTE]Actually, quite often. When the [i]Ticonderoga[/i]-class CGs & the [i]Arleigh Burke[/i]-class DDGs were proposed & launched, they were (& still are) colloquially referred to as "AEGIS cruisers" or "AEGIS destroyers" based solely on the radar/fire control system they were built around. The [i]Seawolf[/i]-class subs SHOULD have been SSN-774 to SSN-776, but the project was call the "SSN-21" project, meaning a sub for the 21st century & some idiot thought that was the hull number, so now those are SSN-21 to SSN-23--a technical if not actual reuse of numbers. The follow-on design to the [i]Nimitz[/i]class carrier is the CVNX project. [i]Los Angeles[/i]-class subs are still call 688 & 688I-class boats; even [i]Sturgeon[/i]s were 637-class boats. And to add another wrench...possible reuse of class names? RL ref point: with the launch of USS [i]Virginia[/i] SSN-774, the USN will have started its 3rd "[i]Virginia[/i]-class" of ships. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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