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It would go against Star Trek belifs if a ship was a warship made for fighting against other humans. Battles with evil alien races have always been a star trek plot device.
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Oops. Not just humans, starfleet. But any millitary needs good warships because there are alien races out there that want to distroy the federation.
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quote:But any millitary needs good warships because there are alien races out there that want to distroy the federation.
ANY military? Amazing. 55 years after the fact, Wes is able to give the Nazis a suitable excuse to break the Treaty of Versailles' proscription against Germany rebuilding their Navy. . . 8)
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Whoever said Voyager has Type X phasers needs a swift backhand to the head.
It doesn't have Type X phasers, it was never established to have Type X phasers.
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Exactamundo Seven Languages, I agree entirely that 'no warships' is just a Starfleet PR tag. If you really think about, Starfleet and Federation would've been utterly conquered long ago without them. They are a military force and have to defend and patrol a massive region of space, and over the years have accumulated a multitude of adversaries. Look at the defense forces such as Section 31.
I've always been a proponent of Starfleet's angle of adopting naval terms, in itself a military. we know all this. One of the pages on my site deals with ship designations. As well as a little creativity to fill in certain gaps and grey areas this is based on canon knowledge.
Its a canon fact that Starfleet uses the terms Frigate, Cruiser, Escort and Destroyer. The latter three alone were used by Sisko in the DS9 Dominion war to describe Federation taskforces. Perhaps as Seven Languages suggests, all ships are adequately armed to deal with potential threats, and could quietly be described as potential ships of war. Voyager included.
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quote:Perhaps as Seven Languages suggests, all ships are adequately armed to deal with potential threats, and could quietly be described as potential ships of war. Voyager included.
Frank is using me for a sig line. That, in my opinion, is not good. Espeically since I no longer do that. I now wake up thinking about madly sexualizing my girlfriend. And getting food. And caffeine. And figuring out exactly in whenwhere I am.
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