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Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space
Date: 
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:08:09 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Brian Tobin writes:
<major snippage>
Sorry for the rant, but I've been a champion of the truth about SD scale
since I was a kid and could see on the screen that the Executor was
obviously bigger than was being claimed!

-Brian

ROTFLMAO!!!  "Truth?"  It's not called Science _Fiction_ for nothing!!!!!

That said, there's way too much information there.

James



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  Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
 
(...) True, but good science fiction has enough grounding in reality to make it believable and maintain continuity with itself. While Curtis Saxton takes this to an extreme, I find nothing wrong with using the best reference possible to ascertain (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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  Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
 
(...) Jason, unfortunately you've used a reference for the Executor class Super Star Destroyer length which falls for the old "5 mile fallacy" or to be more precise, "8 mile fallacy" (no, nothing to do with the new Eminem movie). Every "official" (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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