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There is almost no cannon info about info about the Raven. No class info or stats were given in the ep. Certain things can be deduced by the rego number concerning her age and what not, but other than that...look to fan fic!
She is NOT Erewon Class despite what you may read on the internet.
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SS Raven NAR-32450, privatly owned science vessel. Owned by the Hanson Family.
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Well I'd like to think the Raven as an Erewon-class ship, since we only saw a little of it in "Paradise". There are so many classes we don't know what they look like and whenever we see a new design it's also given a new class name.
I read that the Erewon is 4 times the size of a runabout, about the same size as the Raven I presume. Unfortunatly the registries don't match. The SS Santa Maria has a different registry prefix, BDR-529. And the Raven can't seem to choose one, first it's NAR, then it's NCC-32450.
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I thought that the Santa Maria was a Sydney Class transport. Anyway, the Raven looks new and yet it has a low registry number. Why is that?
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Well, the ship is at least twenty-some years old, so it couldn't have a new registry. Since it's in the 3xxxx's, though, I'd say it has to be even older than that. Probably originally launched in the 2330's or so and refit soon before the Hansen's got it.
And the Santa Maria was Erewhon-class. I believe this comes from the Encyclopedia-2.
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The updated encyclopedia has an entry for the raven and does not state what class it is. Although it does confirm the possible reason why it had a NAR registry and a USS prefix.
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Actually the Encyclopedia spells it Erewon not Erewhon. I think Erewhon comes from the first Encyclopedia but the latter versions spell it Erewon.
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Well, "Erewhon" is the name of an utopian society from the writings of some 19th century or earlier author whose name I completely forget. And yes, it's "Erewhon", not "Erehwon", even though obviously it is supposed to be "Nowhere" backwards. I'll check back on the writer ASAP - I just stumbled upon the book cover back in the bookstore, and didn't pay all that much attention. The name was English, though, and I think the surname was a "first name" like George or something. As I said, I'll get back to this.
And the Santa Maria had a distinct hull shape, of which we could glimpse a side door and its immediate surroundings. That hull shape does not match the Sydney design. Nor does it fit the Raven design. And no, it isn't simply the Runabout side door reused. It does match a set of unused matte painting concepts (see the book "The Making of DS9") that describe the Erewhon as a squat single-or at most two-deck design with hind legs spread like those of a lizard. Wider than the Raven, but not as high, and it lacks visible warp nacelles so probably is of inferior warp performance.
On the registry of the Raven: I do not think the NAR numbers run concurrently with the NCC numbers. After all, the NAR number of the shuttle we saw in STVI (the one that later was modified into the Sydney class transport for "Relics") was in the 20000 range at a time when the highest NCC numbers were in four digits.
There's a MSD cutout of the Raven floating around in the net. The ship seems to have four decks and a big aft shuttlebay (the doors of which are either missing, or then are really huge wraparound things that extend all across the stern and to the sides). And just like all the recent ships from Prometheus to Nova to Defiant, this one seems to have landing legs.
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Well, I've just looked, and there's a book called Erewhon by Samuel Butler, and it's apparently about some Utopian kinda thing, so I guess that's the one you saw, Timo.
As for the NAR registries, remember that they were already in use way back in the time of the Mariposa. I would guess they should be well ahead of the NCC's. Which of course, means that, if the Raven is an NAR, it's even older than 2330's.
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I missed Sisko's comment on the ship's class. But Erewhon would be rather fitting, considering Butler's book is a satire on a technological utopia, specifically. I managed to re-browse the book; Butler sez that the name should be pronounced as three syllables E-Re-Whon. Did Sisko follow his instructions?
The Santa Maria herself had that strange BDR-529 registry. Somebody's license plate? I don't think we've ever seen a registry code NOT beginning with "N" on another human-flown ship.
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