• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I don’t know about in Trek lore, but I think in the real world, when a ship is designed or used to travel from one star system to another, it’s classified as a starship

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        5 hours ago

        In ST they definitely use shuttles and runabouts to travel between star systems, but they aren’t called starships.