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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Let's try to summarize: 1) The 17th class of starships (Constitution-class) is the VERY specific configuration that started with the U.S.S. Constitution. Only the ships with 17xx registries would be considered Constitution-class. 2) Some of the initial sixteen classes and some of the later ones are visually identical to the Constitution-class, but we would be wrong to label them in such a way. The Constellation, NCC-1017 is an example of these. 3) The rest of the initial sixteen classes and those that follow the 17th class are visually different, although they serve the same basic role as the 17th class and its visually identical relatives (i.e. Daedalus-class, Miranda-class, Excelsior-class, Oberth-class etc.) 4) However, only the classes that are visually identical to the Enterprise were around during the time of TOS, leading to a simplification which labeled only those ships as starships. There would be a total of 12 such ships; again, all visually identical to the Enterprise. 5) Ships that are outside this starship category are labeled NCC-Fxxx etc. I still can't explain the Grissom NCC-638, but maybe it's a refit of the sixth class. Actually, given the similarity of the NX-01 to ships of the movie era, there is hardly a reason for the Oberth to be a brand-new class. It could be a refit, just like the Enterprise. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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