adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) (02/05/86)
*** YOUR MESSAGE *** > Another point. The Federation is, as a whole, a peaceful group. Battleship > is an awfully military term, and perhaps calling the Enterprise a heavy > cruiser gives the Federation a few diplomatic points. I belive this point was > brought up in one of the unofficial novels. After all, if the Enterprise can > trash any given Klingon ship in battle, and they know it, what does it matter > if it's called a heavy cruiser, a PT boat, or _GOD'S_WRATH_PERSONIFIED_? In one of the episodes or one of the movies, didn't the Klingons refer to the Big E as "a Federation Battle Cruiser"? I seem to recall a group of Klingons hunched around a sensor readout. Seems like the Empire isn't impressed with the Federation's diplomatic posturing. -- -- Mark A. ...{uw-beaver|fluke}!ssc-vax!adolph "1 + 1 = 1, for sufficiently small values of 1..."