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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yes, but that's in the future when Starfleet probably has to differentiate between starships and timeships. In the current Trek universe, "USS" means Starfleet, and Starfleet uses "NCC" registries.
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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
I've also noticed that NAR ships start with SS. Example, SS Vico NAR-18834 Oberth-class.
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
I think the original point or this was to decide if the Raven was Starfleet or non-Starfleet, and perhaps rationalise the discontinutity between "Raven" and "Dark Frontier."
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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
It definatly said NAR on the MSD
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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :
Rick Sternback said on one of his sketches (ST:Mag) that he recommended keeping NCC. And new arrowheads for the banner.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, I never saw "Dark Frontier", but I did see "The Raven". Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Raven belong to Hansens (sp?)? Where would they have gotten a Starfleet ship?
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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
The current theory is that Raven was originally a non-Starfleet Federation research ship that the Hansen family through some cursory attachment to the xxx institute bumbled around in. Then Starfleet put them on a special mission to investigate these Borg-things, giving them official Starfleet status. She gets a USS name prefix and possibly an NCC reg. prefix and quietly slips off with the Borg to the DQ, never to be seen again.
My question is if the mission is so top secret that Picard doesn't even know of the Borg in '65, why mysteriously plaster "USS" onto the hull of the ship run by family of acknowledged screwballs for every passing Dopterian freighter to see? Or did the hull in fact still say SS and NAR but Magnus was being all-official in his logs?
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Posted by Davok (Member # 143) on :
As much as I remember, "...SS Raven NAR-32450" could be clearly seen when Tuvok and Seven escaped from the ship. But I think the left end was cut of, so it cut also be "USS". But "NCC-...", that's impossible.
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
Doesn't Picard the USS Tsiolkovsky as the SS Tsiolkovsky in the Naked Now. Probably just a misreading of the lines but I felt like throwing another log on the fire.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yes, they consistently used the wrong prefix for the Tsiolkovsky in "The Naked Now". That one's always bothered me. I wonder if the crew might have called it "SS" because it was an Oberth, and they were accustomed to those being science ships w/ SS/NAR prefices...?
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Hobbes: Could you write up the text for this, keeping in mind what everyone has said? Thanks.
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