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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] There could still be a niche for gargantuan freighters in Trek - mainly in the ore hauling business. We often hear that ore is a commodity worth shipping, and bulk cargo doesn't get much bulkier than ore, with all the waste rock attached. A sublight or low-but-reliable-warp ship 16 kilometers in length, with a crew of zero, would sound quite reasonable. Piracy of automated ore carriers shouldn't be a problem - the pirates couldn't hope to haul away a significant part of the cargo anyway, and if they try to divert the ship, it will be trivially easy to catch. But the Deneva in my eyes ought to be a short-range ship with definite TOS movie era elements. Leaning more towards Constitution than Excelsior, even. Something similar in size and perhaps design to the Merchantman of ST3... Heck, paint that thing off-white and you've got a pretty good Deneva right there! Or perhaps do the forward hull as a miniature Connie-style hemisaucer, the mid-hull as a series of modules, the aft hull as an impulse cluster, and the "whiskers" as Saber-attached but Connie-style nacelles. That would look really Starfleety... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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