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Correct me here if I'm wrong, but here's the way I heard the story told: This Steamrunner-class ship was noted in the 1997 Star Trek Encyclopedia starship size comparison chart, and that was the only place it ever was noted.
I have two questions: 1. Did the ship also have a text reference? 2. Can somebody please do a scan of the pic & caption for me so I can use it as a reference in my expanded shiplist?
Thanks, -MMoM
[ July 19, 2002, 14:41: Message edited by: The Mighty Monkey of Mim ]
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1. No. It was only listed in the Starfleet Vessel Appendix page at the back of the book. IMHO, this was just a mistake on Okuda's part, as the only name any Steamrunner class was labeled with was "Appalacia."
2. The pic of the "Hiroshima" was just a smaller side-view of the Steamrunner diagram already shown in the 'pedia for the Steamrunner entry. It was nothing new.
Mim, can I give you some friendly advice? (not that I think you'll take it or anything)...I know you're asking these questions for your shiplist. That's completely understandable. I'm doing the same thing for my canon list. But instead of making an entirely new topic for just one question, perhaps you should wait, get several questions together (like 5 or 6 at a time), and then post them in one post? It's not like we won't be able to answer your questions if they're not separated.
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Well, the problem is this: I tend to find that if one of those broader threads is started, it always gets focused on one thing, which everybody has something to say about, and strays from the other topics until the thread is really long and nobody bothers with the other questions. They get easily sidetracked.
The other factor is simply that I'm trying to get my shiplist done as quickly as possible, and it seems that questions get answered quicker when they are given their own thread. Also, I pretty much have to take them as they come. I don't always know when one will crop up, and sometimes I'll try waiting to see if there are others that follow it, but since I'm doing one ship at a time it's not all that predictable.
I don't really think I'm flooding the board or anything. Sure, I've started quite a few threads recently, but it's not like there are that many. And they really don't stay a long time. They're there for a couple of days, they get answered, and then they go away.
-MMoM
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