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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I'm not sure if this should be categorized as a "hole", but it is a major gripe anyway: Are we [i]really[/i] supposed to believe that somebody in his or her or its right mind would name a class of starships "Starship class"? I mean, "Starship class" is canonical from a solid brass plaque and all that. But it's also crazy. From ENT we know that the word "starship" has been applied as a descriptive noun to spacecraft at least since the 2150s. It would make sense that the word would be applied that way from the very first shiplike startraveling thingamajig on. Which [i]should[/i] preclude silly "proper noun" usage at a later date. To negate the canonical power of that dedication plaque, perhaps we could say that USS Enterprise of Constitution class was awarded a prize for being "Star Ship Class". Perhaps this is even the same thing as awarding "Star Ship Status", which is what was listed on that wall display in "Court Martial". That is, Kirk and his crew had earned X percentage points for "Starship Class" award, while the Vulcan crew of the Intrepid was already well past 100% and was in fact in the process of attaching the award plaque when Stone ordered the work to be halted... At some point after "Court Martial", Kirk's crew reached 100%, too, and got that plaque to be attached in place of the old one that read "USS Enterprise, Constitution Class". :p Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]

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