A Federation diplomatic and humanitarian cruiser from around the same era as the Excelsior class (2290's). The ship's interior space is dominated by a very large through-deck hangar which can be outfitted for cargo, evacuation, or fit with facilities for diplomatic talks.
In Star Trek Discovery, they find the Hiawatha which was a medical ship from the Klingon war. It's weird to me that the Hiawatha would be a medical ship. Hiawatha didn't have much to do with medicine. He was an orator and a diplomat famous for founding the Haundenosaunee Confederacy from warring Iroquois nations.
It's neat that they used some native american historical names in the show's ship names, but why have such a mismatched name and purpose? How about Susan La Flesche Picotte who was the first native woman to earn a medical degree? Or Annie Dodge Wauneka who helped eliminate tuberculosis among the Navajo people.
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