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Basically yeah. Civilian shipping firms and ship builders can name their vessels whatever they want, it doesn't effect any other fleet's Class designations. Infact there might even be several Enterprises and Yorktowns flying around under civilian companies, it's not like Starfleet would have the monopoly on ship names, ,which is as good an explanation as any for the TMP ringship.
Infact I proposed that maybe all the non-Starfleet Antares class ships actually come from a company based in the Antares system (I even did a logo for them), however give that Antares is several thousand light years away (I think) that would be a little far fetched...unless the Antarians are a particulary widespread and fairly advanced race who just like enjoy selling rusty old freighters to all kinds of people across the galaxy.
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It's too advanced, man! The Enterprise in TOS didn't have logos on the plaque, those only came with movie technology. Besides, aside from the logo, you're basically just ripping off what they did in TOS. Show some originality and stop pissing on Roddenberry's grave and rewriting canon.
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The board is awash with recursion and self-reference tonight, I see.
Reverend: I think it might look better if Montana wasn't abbreviated. (Or, perhaps, was represented by its two-letter postal code, but that seems a bit unlikely.) Maybe make it just a little taller, or shrink the font for that line a bit more?
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quote: It's too advanced, man! The Enterprise in TOS didn't have logos on the plaque, those only came with movie technology.
Of course, embossing is a highly advanced technique that couldn't possibly be done until the late 23rd century.
quote: Besides, aside from the logo, you're basically just ripping off what they did in TOS.
It's called continuity.
quote: Show some originality and stop pissing on Roddenberry's grave and rewriting canon.
Bite me.
quote: Reverend: I think it might look better if Montana wasn't abbreviated. (Or, perhaps, was represented by its two-letter postal code, but that seems a bit unlikely.) Maybe make it just a little taller, or shrink the font for that line a bit more?
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Two comments: 1. I agree that you should probably abbreviate Montana as MT. 2. The shadowing you've used on the Hermes plaque makes it look as if the letters are floating without a connection to the base. This is especially noticable at the bottom points of the delta and the serifs and thin sections (top of the s) of some letters.
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