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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] While I'm certainly in the "there were more than 40 ships at Wolf 359" camp, as well as in the "the Endeavour and the Excalibur were not at Wolf 359" camp, and in a lot of other camps as well, there's something I should point out. Not a big thing, just a semantic detail. But perhaps significant anyway. A ship can be "sunk". This does not mean she would be permanently lost - for all we know, somebody might decide to raise the vessel even centuries hence and convert her into a starship... However, there is no comparable word for a starship. Even if he wanted, a TNG writer could not say "like the battleship row of Pearl Harbor, the sunken starships were later put back to service". The word "destroyed" does carry all the implications of permanence that Lee points out. *Could* there be a synonym for "sunk" that could be applied to starships? "Voided" would be a nice one - complete loss of onboard atmosphere is rather analogous to sinking, and probably fatal for 99% of the crew, yet easily recoverable in engineering terms. (We can't say "evacuated", since the word already has another meaning - but the other meaning of "to void" might not interfere too badly here.) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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