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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]Not bad...a little different that what I worked out (especially for the 2290s & 2300s), but it works. How did you choose your specific data points? [/QUOTE]Basically I started with all the known instances of ships in operation before the start of TNG. For example, I knew that the Apollo class Ajax was at least in service in 2327, the year in which the past sequences of "Tapestry" take place. So obviously the Apollo class had to have been commissioned at least before that date. Then after that, I extrapolated some logical shipbuilding times around those points, based on the registries. I'm of the opinion that Okuda didn't just pull registry numbers out of his ass, and that they do have some semblance of chronological sense. It's usually the registry numbers he wasn't involved in creating that cause problems (i.e. the First Contact ships, or Greg Jein's extrapolation of Commodore Stone's wall chart). The TNG Tech Manual's timeline of Galaxy class design & production also helped considerably, as did the date of the replacement of duotronics with isolinear chip technology, which affected my timeline in a major way. Besides the FC ships, the only problem registry-wise was, of course, the Oberth class. However, although I still find it preposterous that the Oberth class was still in production right up to the start of TNG, I've come to the conclusion that its registry scheme is different than other ships, starting right when we saw the ship for the first time as the Grissom NCC-638 (the reason for that, however, is unknown, and I couldn't even hazard a guess). There's no way that ship was commissioned even before the TOS Connies were, as the registry seems to indicate. But the TNG Oberth registries [i]are[/i] internally chronological to other Oberths, but not to other starships. BTW, I wouldn't mind seeing your interpretation for the 2290's-2300's, although any differences between yours and mine still wouldn't affect my speculation about the conjectural classes, as the earliest known class (Deneva) wouldn't be in production until after the 2300's. [QUOTE]I ascribe those post-TNG ships spawning like rabbits to Dominion War fleet escalation. [/QUOTE]That, and the Borg threat, too. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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