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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I think it's best to assume it is the case. For starters we've seen multiple 'incarnations' of the same name in different ships and classes (Hood, Defiant, Grissom, Lexington, Bellerophon, Farragut) to name a few off the top of my head, none of which continued the registry number of a predecessor plus an alphabetical suffix. Assuming that they do, just to account for the odd lapse in continuity is a bit silly if you ask me. It's safe to say the Enterprise is a special case as it is the Flagship of the Federation, not just the flagship of a certain fleet or a task force, the whole fleet. As for how numbers are assigned, speaking s someone who has work with stores and stock allocation, to me the most likely way it is that certain ranges are pre-assigned for planned production runs, possibly even some ranges are reserved for specific ship yards, so it'd be up to the yards themselves to assign available registries. So, for the sake of argument, say Starfleet command gives out the construction orders the next 2 years as follow:- Utopia Planita is assigned ranges NCC-77200 -> NCC-77358 and NCC-77780 -> NCC-77999 San Francisco is assigned ranges NCC-77359 -> NCC-77779 In which time UP is ordered to build 24 Galaxys, 50 Akiras, 70 Novas and say 150 Danubes So the yard commander assigns the registries available to him as he sees fit. Say NCC-77780 -> NCC 77804 for the Galaxy class ships; NCC-77805-77855 for the Akiras, NCC-77856 -> NCC-77926 for the Novas and NCC-77208 -> NCC-77358 for the Danubes. Now he still has NCC-77927 -> NCC-77999 which can be tacked in front of the next batch of Novas that gets ordered and NCC-77200 -> NCC-77207 which he intentionally left to one side because he knows the NXP-2765WP/T pathfinder is being fast tracked and will likely go into production as an official prototype for the new Yorktown-Class, which will probably require an additional order of six hulls after the prototype, for which he "pencils in" NX-77200. That still leaves NCC-77207 without a ship to go with, so he either leaves it unallocated, possibly to be used years later as a "filler" when he find's he doesn't have a "block" of numbers big enough to neatly take a whole order, or he ends up assigning it the experimental Icarus Project as NX-77207 along with several other "scrap" numbers he has on file to cater for the five or so prototypes they have been cleared to order. That's how I see it anyway. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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