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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Hm... I'm gonna need to create a page w/ all my "wacky theories", so I don't have to always explain them... :-) 1, 4, 6, 7, & 13: We know (or can be relatively certain, given the evidence) that a ship is not named when it is first ordered to be built. However, I believe that the registry number is assigned at that time. So, every ship, including the [i]Enterprises[/i] has a unique registry. My theory is that, when a ship is given a name that has been previously used, the commander is given the choice whether to use the real registry, or use a suffixed one. Since the original E was such a legendary ship, all the captains of the various starships [i]Enterprise[/i] have used the suffixed registries. In the case of the [i]Yamato[/i], whoever was captain during "Where Silence Has Lease" used the suffixed registry (NCC-1305-E, as read by Riker), meaning that there was an original [i]Yamato[/i] 1305, plus four others in between. By the time of "Contagion", a new captain (Donald Varley, IIRC) had taken command, and he preferred the real registry. Anyway, my list only uses the real registries, which we don't have for the Es and Ys (because the writers know nothing of this theory), so I don't have them. You say the [i]Yamato[/i]-E isn't listed, but it is. It's the last [i]Yamato[/i] way down near the end of the list. 2: I realize that the registries can be changed, but I chose to only include the original (as cited in my previous answer). 3: "Wacky Theory [i]Numeral Dos[/i]"... Since we have so many Const'n-class ships w/ registries less than 1700, the 1700 cannot be the class ship. I don't subscribe to the theory that those other ships were "changed" from one class to another at some point. Unless the classes were unreasonably similar, it wouldn't be worthwhile. And, if they were that much identical, I think it would be more of an upgrade than a class change. Therefore, I believe that there was a USS [i]Constitution[/i] w/ a registry less than 956 (the [i]Eagle[/i]'s), which was destroyed or lost or something. The name was then reused on the 1700. 5: As Frank said, this was in the DS9TM. 8: As Frank also said, it was on a model used at conventions or something. I figured that makes it close enough to official, and it doesn't conflict w/ anything, so I might-as-well include it... 9: I'm not sure. I'd have to rewatch TBoBW. Since you ask, I guess I must have "disappeared 2366"? *doesn't feel like looking* If that's what I've got, I assume it's right, or I was misinformed somewhere along the line... 10: In the encyclopedias, there is a side-note that says the production guys named the [i]New Orleans[/i] class after a ship they called the [i]City of New Orleans[/i]. I decided to use it, even if it is an in-joke. The only thing it contradicts is Frank's unfounded notion that a class name must be invariable from the name of the class-ship. 11: Someone saw this on some sort of TV special about ILM. There was a shot of an [i]Oberth[/i] model labelled thusly. The assumption is that, since ILM did [i]Generations[/i], this is probably how the model was labelled when it was used at the end of that movie. 12: There is a pic of the model as it was labelled before being labelled [i]Jenolan[/i] (or however it was spelled on the model). It has the name [i]Nash[/i] and the registry NCC-2010-B. Supposedly the name [i]Nash[/i] is visible in "Trials and Tribble-ations", but not the registry. The problem w/ 2010-B is that 2010 was the [i]Jenolan[/i], so it can't be the registry of the [i]Nash[/i]. Does this help? :-) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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