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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] As the Enterprise identified Kronos One as a Battle Cruiser, it would seem to be a SF term as well (you wouldn't identify an alien ship as a type that doesn't exist in your nomenclature). Federation Class seems to be more powerful than Constitution/Enterprise Class, so I assume Dreadnought is more powerful than Battle Cruiser. The Prometheus is a pure warship, whereas the Battle Cruisers we have seen (Connies) are all multi-purpose ships - perhaps that is the difference between Battle and Tactical Cruisers. Although, as the Prometheus destroyed a Romulan Battle Cruiser (Warbird) in MIAB, I suspect it may be more powerful than a BC. Perhaps TC is a replacement for Dreadnought? If so, I would expect the Sovereign to be a TC, the Galaxy and Nebula with weapons pod BCs, the Nebula with science pod a Heavy Cruiser, the Intrepid perhaps a Medium Cruiser. Long-Range is clearly just an addition (Voyager is probably a Long-Range Medium Cruiser, or something similar). [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartmaniac: [qb] [i]Defiant[/i]-class crews would disagree with you there, I should think. [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't think that the Defiant Class is really the best example of an escort. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Defiant was "officially" classed as an Escort, but wasn't really one - Starfleet lacking a proper term to classify a ship with very strong weapons yet very small. Perhaps the term Tactical Cruiser was invented partly for this reason, to classify a largish ship with very strong weapons, as I suspect Dreadnoughts became obsolete after the peace with the Klingons in TUC. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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