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Well, okay. If you want to say a ship is acting like a battlecruiser, or some such, feel free to. But don't claim that Starfleet would actually give it any such official designation within the confines of wartime, because all evidence suggests otherwise.
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I find that it easier to indentify ships with the correct classficiations. Starfleet might call their batttlecruisers and battleships cruisers or whatever. It is a different classification scheme than what we call our ships in the Navy. Denying the fact is dones't exist is saying that the sun does not exist. We as humans designate things to make it easier to identify.
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Unbelievable! How many starship-classification discussions were there in the entire history of Flare? It's amazing how long these threads become everytime!
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Everything around here has been explored already. Back in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth centuries, do you think they changed the designation of an explorer's ship if a war started?
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Actually, that isn't true, Frank. Historically, navies have often been handed missions of a purely exploratory nature. Charles Darwin was aboard the HMS Beagle, after all, not the SS Beagle. I'd say it's partially because we've explored most of the ocean that we lock our modern navy into a combat role. And even today, a great deal of oceanographic research is conducted by naval vessels, both as a spinoff from military applications (mapping the ocean floor to provide for better submarine navigation) and as the result of specific scientific investigations.
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