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Trinculo
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Datalore: USS Tripoli is identified as a heavy cruiser.
length
lower limit of heavy cruiser-Constitution Class
upper limit of heavy cruiser-Ambassador Class

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Montgomery
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That's still a fair range to swing around in.
Perhaps the Hokule'a class was some new design brought in to supplement Excelsiors in the early 2300s?

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Bernd
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Obviously not a very common design or the ships were retired early. I have no objections against the heavy cruiser classification, why shouldn't there be large ships besides the well-known classes? In my opinion the number of existing classes has nothing to do with their sizes.

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The359
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Isn't Constitution more of a medium cruiser then a heavy?

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Trinculo
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STTSFS: Computer display-Type S1 Heavy Cruiser. Blueprints of USS Enterprise.

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Identity Crisis
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The Constitutione were a Heavy Cruisers during TOS, TAS and TCFS. Whether that designation was changed after the introduction of the Excelsior class we don't know. Considering how quickly they vanished from the scene after TCFS there probably wasn't any need for a reclassification.

If they were still in service 'today', then they'd probably be light cruisers or frigates or something like that.

Oh, in case you don't know TCFS = The Classic Film Series, an incredibly useful but seriously underused acronym.

Back to the Hokule'a class. We don't know that all of them were retired, just one particular one. So they could still be quite a few of them flying around.

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