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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Hey guys, In my spare time I'm writing up a couple starship-related essays, such as an essay about the conjectural Starfleet ship classes, and another one about the appearance of each ship model on screen in TNG. For the latter, as I was writing the article on the Miranda class U.S.S. Brattain seen in "Night Terrors," I came upon some interesting (and frustrating) information about that ship that I'd like to share & get your opinions about. If any of my info is in error, please let me know. Now before you all yell at me, understand that I'm going under three assumptions: 1. Starship registries are chronological (at least at the start of my essay), 2. Every registry number from 01 to 75227 (Data's scout, the ship with the highest known registry) has been assigned to an individual ship, and 3. All the information on the Brattain's dedication plaque was correct as written by Okuda (who I presume made the plaque). OK? Here goes... [b]U.S.S. Brattain (Miranda Class)[/b] In "Night Terrors," the Enterprise comes upon the U.S.S. Brattain adrift in space. The Reliant model was used, its second appearance since the Lantree. While the use of the Reliant model is not necessarily a bad choice, it's registry seems to be way too high for a ship of that age, NCC-21166. Registry-wise, that would put its construction around the same time as the Ambassador class ships, which would only make sense if the Brattain was the last Miranda class ship to be built, although we will see later that registries of the Mirandas will go as high as 3XXXX. However, the real problem arises with the ship's dedication plaque. It states that the ship was launched in 2345, only 19 years before the Enterprise-D in 2364! So not only does this mean that other Miranda class ships with the 3XXXX registries must have been launched after this date, but this also applies to the super-high 4XXXX registries of some of the Excelsior class ships! This would mean that both the outdated Miranda and Excelsior classes were still in production even while newer types of ships were being designed and built, and in even some cases retired (like the Ambassador class), which is preposterous. Additionally, this would also mean that registry-wise, all of the 3XXXX Mirandas, 4XXXX Excelsiors, 5XXXX Oberths, all of the 5XXXX, 6XXXX, and 7XXXX ships of the Galaxy class "family" AND the ships shown in ST: First Contact were built in only the 19 years between 2345 and 2364. And finally, to make matters worse, the New Orleans class U.S.S. Rutledge was operating only two years after the Brattain was commissioned, and her registry is NCC-57295. So within the span of only two years, starship registries went from 2XXXX to 5XXXX! There are only two ways around this problem: 1.) Starship registries are not chronological, but that still wouldn't explain the late construction of a Miranda class ship; or 2.) The Cardassian War either started or was in full swing between 2345 and 2347, and in that span of time many, many Mirandas and Excelsiors could have been quickly mass-produced, along with newer designs which were produced only infrequently because there wasn't a lot of time for R&D. The Setlik III massacre in 2347 would seem to confirm this. Plus, just because there were so many registries used during this short time doesn't mean that large ships were being built. There's a precedence for small ships (like runabouts and Data's scout from Insurrection) to also have individual registry numbers. Perhaps all those Peregrine class fighters that the Maquis were using were built around this time, and had their own registries, if not individual names. Plus, there's another problem registry-wise: In 2337, eight years before the Brattain was even launched, the last of the Renaissance class ships, the Hokkaido, was commissioned. Although the Hokkaido's registry number is unknown, it must be at least one number past the U.S.S. Hornet's registry of NCC-45231, the highest known Renaissance class registry. So let's for argument's sake say the Hokkaido's registry was NCC-45232. That's still 24,066 registry numbers higher than a ship that was produced eight years later! Again, the only option that would make sense of this fact is if registries were not chronological. There is of course one more theory, one that makes the most sense: that the launch date on the dedication plaque was actually a "relaunch" date, after the Brattain had some kind of refit done (or if the Brattain was in fact another vessel that was rechristened, like the Enterprise-A), and the ship is actually much older than the plaque suggests. That would also explain the higher registries of previous Renaissance class ships, and wipe away the short production timespan theory of other ships. But why bother with such a convoluted idea like that for just one old ship in one forgettable episode? Okuda just should have made the launch date earlier. Whew! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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