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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] This stems from a time before I was bibliographing my sources. :( It was [i]around[/i] the same time as I got the Sketchbook, but I know that wasn't it -- the conversations with Jeffries, and the sketches from him, only reinforced and added to the little bits I already had. I will continue to wrack my brains... As to the rest, the [i]Republic[/i] was never indicated to be a Starship, let alone [i]Constitution[/i]-class, so that 13xx rego can be left nebulous. As said previously, the [i]Constellation[/i] throws a spanner in the works, but that was outside Matt's control. Much like the '1305-E' making it onscreen for the [i]Yamato[/i] was for Mike. And any of the 'deconstructive' data points Mike gives us in Star Trek VI and in TNG are automatically suspect, for reasons espoused elsewhere. There had to have been more than a dozen [i]Constitution[/i]s, but still far less, I think, than the hundred-and-fifty or so FJ postulated. In noodling things out further, though, I'm now tentatively pointing to NCC-2500 in 2285 to be the start of the new registry system. The [i]Repulse[/i] has a rego of 2544, and the [i]Hathaway[/i] -- said in dialogue to originate from about this time -- has a rego of 2593. I know it's not what Mike intended, but it fits the wider theory I'm promoting. ;) The only regos that would have to be tweaked are a half-dozen or so (at most -- probably only one or two in practice) "borderline" ships from Star Trek VI displays, plus the [i]Bozeman[/i]. Despite the 1947 in-joke rego on her upper hull, going with the 1847 rego on her lower hull would make her the [i]Miranda[/i] variant we've always suspected her of being. ;) I know a lot of the stuff I'm proposing grates with accepted notions of the way things are, but I've always had to know [i]why[/i] things are the way they are. And in researching this matter, I've determined that the way things currently are is an inaccurate interpretation of the way things originally were. However, with the sheer bulk of support the way things currently are has, the only recourse to mate the two incompatible systems is to do [i]some[/i]thing along the lines I suggested. The only thing left would be to choose whether or not to swap the [i]Constellation[/i]'s rego to '1710' in a later "Special Edition" of TOS... ;) As you can see, this is something I'm rather passionate about. Sorry. I just like fictional universes to be internally consistent, and it bugs me when they're threated as though just because they're not real, it somehow makes them less valid... Verisimilitude is not a dirty word. :D And I find myself thinking of Gene's old quote more and more these days: "There's intelligent life on the [i]other[/i] side of that screen, too..." --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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