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[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnboy: [QB] Well, the first time I am aware of that you could actually SEE a five digit registry was in "The Wounded" .... the Nebula Class Phoenix had a registry of NCC-65420 and that could be seen in the first shot. Most of the other five digit registries in TNG were published in various sources (encyclopoedia, etc) but couldn't be made out on the screen. Even though almost every starfleet ship the Enterprise encountered had a 5 digit registry, the ships we saw close up tended to not have the registry visible (aka the Brattain, which had the registry NCC-21166 painted on the model, but the closeup shot only showed the ship name, not number). The few ships you could actually read the numbers on were the Stargazer (2893) Hathaway (2593) Bozeman (1941), Repulse (2544 - visible on it's shuttlecraft anyway) .... again, oddly enough, the old 4 digit numbers. Many of the models in the Wolf 359 graveyard scene had 5 digit registries put on them, but they were so small on screen you couldn't read them. So the irony here was that Gene Roddenbery determined early on that the way you distinguish TNG era ships were that they had 5 digit registries.... and then for seven seasons we practially never actually see any! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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