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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: A courier is often used to refer to a person who carries messages and information. By extension, a courier ship might simply be a fast, small ship for securely and quickly carrying information, mail, etc. [/QUOTE]It needn't be huge, of course, but I can't imagine that they wouldn't give it cargo space in case it needed to "coury" ;) something else. [QUOTE]In the military today, I imagine that the smallest, fastest craft, such as fighters, are used as couriers.[/QUOTE] http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=159 http://www.dcs.ftmeade.army.mil/publicweb/default.aspx The Defense Courier Service is under the Air Mobility Command, which does not include fighters. The DCS website's index page image is of a cargo palette being loaded onto a Lear-style jet. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Abaddon: Those are about 25-32 meters long. Those tac fighters are purdy large.[/QUOTE]True, but if you look at the cockpit module it is very small in comparison to the rest of the craft . . . a couple of meters wide, and about twice that in length. That gives them the cramped cockpit from Maquis2 plus either another cramped cockpit's worth of space behind them (assuming it isn't full of equipment). [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mim: Trying to take Pathways and its wholly incorrect references to ship and class names as canon = BAD.[/QUOTE]1. I'm stuck going with Paramount on the canonicity. 2. Given that there are only a few ship names given and that, besides Voyager, no other class names are given that I recall offhand, I don't see how it can be considered wholly incorrect. [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: I might point out that the Tac-Fighters (which I still believe are Peregrines) fired photon torpedoes in their harrying raids against Dukat's fleet in the beginning of "The Sacrifice of Angels". So that part of your theory doesn't work -- sorry, G2K.[/QUOTE]I do not see how that works against the idea, even if we assume those were torpedoes and not pulsed phasers. Where did it appear that the argument required that the SoA fighters could not or should not have torpedoes? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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