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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] By MMoM - from the Expanded Ships list thread: Re: Me suggesting the Prommie does indeed start with a 7xxxx. [QUOTE] "Firstly, I am indeed going with NX-59650 for the Prometheus, as I always have. My reasons for this are essentially stated in the entry�s notes. I find it rather too difficult to ignore the highly-visible number, (Brattain issue aside) especially since every single official publication uses it. Even the Encyclopedia, written by Okuda and which displays the MSD and dedication plaque on which the NX-74913 number, lists the lower number in the main text. I know there will be many who disagree with this, but that�s how I�m leaving it---with the 59650 number in the main entry text and notes about the other, perhaps more �reasonable� number in the annotations. Secondly, I understand your point about the First Contact vessels. I too have always maintained that they were most likely new vessel designs at the time of the movie. I have no intention of ret-conning their registries, though. I prefer to simply chalk it up to another unexplained �glitch� in the sequential/chronological registry scheme." [/QUOTE]OK. I agree with everything there. The reason why I started a new thread - is that I had a brain-wave. Question - the Enterprise is 1701-D - but it actually had a proper 7xxxx registry number didn't it? NOW - theory what if a Starship Captain or a committee - whom-ever can assign a different name and/or registry to a ship (but underneath all that paint - the ship is really it's original designation - like the E-D is/was actually 7xxxx. OK, this fits with firstly the Enterprise-D. This fits with the Defiant-class Defiant/Sao Paulo. (The ship is/was REALLY the Sao Paulo - now it just has a new paint-job/registry for sentimental reasons. Thus in WWLB - there is still the old registry.) This can explain the Prometheus - ACTUALLY originally was NX-74913 - but now everyone knows it as NX-59650 for some sentimental/acknowledgement/tributary reason. There might have been an NX-59650 Prometheus (or other name) that might have done fantastic things over her career. Or something - or the Admiral's wife was captain of that ship and he decided to give her a nice birthday present - or it was to decieve Romulans or WHAT-EVER. Yes the ship is now officially NX-59650 - it's original roll-out order number is NX-74912. This can now apply to those 4 FC ships. 7xxxx generation - but with 'old registries' assigned/wished for them. (if things became confusing - there would be some underly signal from the starship saying it is NCC-59280 (NCC-74373) etc. This also fits the wierd Connie registries. The original connie WAS 1700 and the Enterprise WAS 1701. (you'd have to be a Starfleet specialist insider to know all the original registries) but there are some that wanted to adopt old registries for some reason like the Constellation - maybe it was Decker's old ship's number NCC-1017? Maybe his Fathers? He could have put in a special request. Where we see blocks of numbers and closely identifying ships - we can assume that they are their unchanged/original registries - where we have things say like 6 Akiras all 7xxx1,2,3,4,5,6 and the 4th is 64622 - then we can extrapolate that Command/whomever wanted to give that ship an old registry - for some unknown reason? Feng Shui reasons... who knows!! This sufficiently covers all bases. It's basically - we don't really know the system - you'd have to be an insider Starfleet specialist engineer - a Zackdorn somewhere probably knows all the registries and their histories - but we won't find out. So taking what we know and extrapolating - we get this. A near-continuous starship release registry - with some anomalies due to some particular whims of captains or admirals or some cultural/historical significance for member worlds!?! Something akin to personalised numberplates!?! Andrew [/QB][/QUOTE]
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