ok....so pretty much all of the news i get is from UK outlets. even there there is saturation coverage of the US primaries. Now i get that the US president is a somewhat powerful figure on the world stage but my question is do you think that none US citizens should..well..care about any of this befo...

Deepcrush wrote:Well dear friend, you've gotten the best. I've "Debated" with you several times and even killed you on a number of occasions. Besides, when was the last time you ragged on any of the newbs?

such hostility!

such is to be expected from an american i suppose......

as far as i see it even a mini base leaves you with a problem as far as war fighting is concerned. now maybe if you were to send an expidition out to range,and were talking to the other side of the galaxy here. but if you have ships that are dependant on another ship....or a mobile base totally for...

Deepcrush wrote:Hey all! Thatcha survived his first exchange with me! And even shot back a little! So good! I like him!

ok.....

as far as i see it even a mini base leaves you with a problem as far as war fighting is concerned. now maybe if you were to send an expidition out to range,and were talking to the other side of the galaxy here. but if you have ships that are dependant on another ship....or a mobile base totally for ...

Logically a Defiant must have a low range because, with all the tech crammed into the ship, there would be very little space for Deuterium, Matter and Antimatter reserves. again i disagree.....i dont think that fuel storage there equates to range....but to endurance. What the defiant doesnt have is...

on the aircraftcarrier/submarine thing.... I aint a carrier fan. The only fighters we have seen on screen are the fed ones from DS9, and Bajoran ones...unless i missed some( of the romulans too whoops) i just dont see the point in the things. They have a use here, because theproject power....but th...

but thats not what your saying about the standard. Your saying that because its the most powerful then it is a battleship. And your reading of history is just plain wrong (tho this may be the history student in me) just because something happened along time ago doesnt mean that there is nothing tha...

9 ships sunk, 21 damaged, 3 of the 21 beyond repair.......notreally a killingblow....as the use of US battleshipslater in the war proved.

but thats not what your saying about the standard. Your saying that because its the most powerful then it is a battleship. And your reading of history is just plain wrong (tho this may be the history student in me) just because something happened along time ago doesnt mean that there is nothing that...

A handful of akiras? I've seen destroyers take down battleships before. Something called a Torpedo. I"ve seen fighters take down battleships before. Its called a missle. Its a very poor comparison. The royal navy hit the italians at taranto with torps....didnt knock out the big ships. How many...

So by your stand point there is not such thing as a battleship in star trek. Thats kinda weird but to each thier own. The scimitar was the greatest ship ever built. Its just plain stupid to compare the norm to a super ship. i woudlnt say its weird, what im doing is drawing parallels between the tre...

and one more quick response to Jim, what your looking for there isnt a carrier to support the akiras and teh defiants...but an old fashioned fleet train,support ships to provide fuel and provisions.

actually i think that the realnavalcomparison is very valid. Tho i will grant you perhaps not the 20thC...but im gonna run with that in a min to illustrate my point more. If you look at the history of western navies (post Rome) you see that a true warship was a rare thing. Much of the english fleet ...

the comment on the romulans is part cannon part deducation. The tal Shiar has at the least been badly mauled, the reman coup is evidence of that, and all sides took a pounding in the war, part of what im taking is the non cannon stuff from this site, but i dont think that the romulans benefited from...