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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] First, TSN... The use of a schematic onscreen in a couple instances in TOS showing a vessel that was [i]Constitution[/i]-class, but not the [i]Enterprise[/i], as it bore the registry 'NCC-1700'. Come up with a more plausible reason why people on the [i]Enterprise[/i] -- particularly Khan -- would be looking at just another random ship in this class rather than the lead ship or the actual ship they were on... _____ Second, Mr. Kid... I say delays because the [i]Excelsior[/i] herself was just ready for trial runs over fifteen years after the [i]Federation[/i] class was in service, and the [i]Constellation[/i] was still undergoing deep-space certification trials several years after that. I carry the notion that registry numbers are assigned when the ships are ordered or laid down to their logical next step in this era, saying the hull design numbers are assigned in the order the classes begin development. Of course, having the [i]Constellation[/i] at 1974 is one of the little problems I observe with Okuda's system being shoehorned onto Jeffries' system. In my "personal canon" ;) I knock the [i]Constellation[/i] down to 1900, as the [i]Constellation[/i]-class [i]Hathaway[/i] was launched around the time of Star Trek III. I find it odd to think that the lead ship of a class would be still undergoing certification trials when other ships of that class are entering active service. Then, I tidy things up by saying that the 1974 ship in Star Trek VI was some other [i]Constellation[/i]-class ship undergoing deep-space tests, and say it was the last one ordered before the registry system changeover, with the [i]Hathaway[/i] being the first [i]Constellation[/i]-class ship ordered after the changeover. *whew* --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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