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I'd agree that post-2300 registries could go roughly like "last two digits of year of launch = first two digits of registry minus ten". Perhaps there was even a big makeover of the system where NCC-10000 was made to coincide with the turn of the century, and the registries then proceeded in batches of 1000 per year... That allows for NCC-57000 in 2347, to satisfy the backstory of the Renegade. And it also agrees with the Galaxy launch dates, assuming the other, 71000-range ships were launched within a few years of NCC-1701-D.
But you can't make me believe in chronologically organized TOS registries. I'd count everything up to NCC-9999 as nonchronological - at most, things in the 8000 range would probably but not necessarily be from the 2280s or the 2290s. To believe otherwise would mean I'd have to give up FJ and SotSF, and to think that Oberths were older than Constitutions. No thanks.
The highest four-digit regos in canon (save for a few Excelsiors) are either Constellations or Denevas, in the 3000 and 6000 ranges, respectively. We know the Constellations are from the 2280s-90s (since NX-1974 was still doing test runs by the time of ST6), even if we know nothing of the age of the Denevas. What sort of ship would this NCC-8165 be?
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Thanks to you Timo too. The NCC-1930 is the registry from a miranda class model i'm making with custom decals i bought from federation models, the USS Nero. The NCC-8165 is the registry of a kitbash i'm making using the same decals, which i'm calling the Triumphant class USS Legacy. Think of a Miranda class with the nacelles on top and external hull changes. I'm trying my best to make it look credible, not lame like most kitbashes.
forgot to add that the reason i want his info is because i'm witing backstorys for all my models.
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From my personal list and calculations that I've worked out (and probably should be reworked sometime), I get the following:
USS Ambassador NX-10521 - 2300 USS Lakota NCC-42768 - 2330 NCC-1930 - 2269 or 2270 NCC-8165 - 2298
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Ambassador in 2300 or 2302? are you serious? didnt the TNG tM establish a date (possibly one that made some sense?)
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ok just chekced that.. seems there wasnt a date in the Ambassador reference..
but 2300? thats only a few years after TUC/Generations.. a ship like Ambassador, like the Galaxy, probably took decades to plan, and i dont see it coming out of the 2270-80s...
i place it at 2320, halfway between the Excelsior and the Galaxy.. just seems to make more sense. besides, i dont see the registries jumping to 10000 anytime before some time into the 24th century either.
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Thanks everyone. The Ambassador i always assumed was from the first decade of the 24th centruy. I just wanted to make sure because most of you guys have a better grasp on this kind of things than i do.
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NX-10xxx or not, the Ambasador cannot be that old. I'd have said something between 2310 and 20, probably closer to 2320. If the ship's registry really is 10xxx, why would any other Ambassador have a registry in the 26xxx's? Either good old Okuda was wrong or the original Ambassador looked totally different from the ships we've seen (probably refits in this case.)
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i also think the Ambassadors tech is most likely post-2320.
And why would they build the 24th century's first large explorer class before the Excelsior had even been proven?
BTW, there are a few other 10xxx Ambassadors.. the Horatio i believe.
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