Let's create some registry prefixes! It's pretty simple to put 3 letters together and get a prefix, but what do they signify? The existing prefixes that we know of are:
For simplicity's sake, lets stick with creating Federation ones. I've already created one, and my friend made one, too. They are:
The first one is my own creation. My friend never really told me what NXC stands for, but in his little fleet his flagships all have NXC registries, so I'm assuming that it's some kind of Actve Service variant. So, let's get creative!
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"Suppose they went nowhere."
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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited July 10, 1999).]
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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."
Better, Frank?
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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."
There. That should cover all bases....now is anyone going to actually create a new registry prefix, or are we all just going to nitpick my conjectural list?
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Fabrux's Starship Page
"Go? Where are we going?"
"Where they went."
"Suppose they went nowhere."
"Then, this'll be your big chance to get away from it all"
-McCoy and Kirk, The Wrath of Khan
[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited July 10, 1999).]
I always figured NSP was a Vulcan prefix, though the evidence is somewhat speculative.
I suppose we'll probably never see the Feds use NAD, NUT, or NIP, will we?
Sorry, couldn't help myself. *grin*
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"They gave the ferret a teleprompter!"
-Louie the Lizard, Budweiser commercial
Of course, we will very likely see the NRD prefix, presumably on the Gates class starships. I expect they will transport nothing but cash.
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"They gave the ferret a teleprompter!"
-Louie the Lizard, Budweiser commercial
Behold: "Star Trek Lost Episodes" transcript.
Horrifying, isn't it?
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"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/
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"They gave the ferret a teleprompter!"
-Louie the Lizard, Budweiser commercial
To put it simply, the way I understand the NAR and such registries is that they are civilian vessels, but are still under the auspices (ooo, big word for me) of Starfleet or some other Federation agency. The registry I mentioned above is COMPLETELY civilian. Think of it as the number that would be on a car license plate.
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"Captain, the Sona crew are willing to negotiate a cease fire. It may have something to do with the fact that we have 3 minutes of air left."
-- Worf
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-- In time of war the law falls silent.
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RB: "'Get a life' is a phrase heard a lot, though I have never known exactly what kind was implied. Seems a lot of shallowness and greed is the rule."
CS: "I guess that it means the kind of life led by the characters of 'Dawson's Creek' or 'The Simpsons'."
Dammit ...
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Join Cpt. Connor H. Macy and the crew of the <i>Tokyo</i> as they attempt to forge the bonds of trust ...
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Buffy: "See, this is a school. And we have students and they check out books and then they learn things."
Giles: "I was beginning to suspect that was a myth."
- Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Shuttle might follow aviation lines, like the plane I was taught to fly in, N 23666 X. A Cessna 172.
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NX - an experimental vessel, first of her class
NXC - a testbed vessel, used to test upgrades for vessels of a given class in service
And I'm sure I'll think of more!
Actually... I think NAR was postulated to be "Naval Auxiliary/Reserve" or "Naval Active Reserve", since the ships we've seen with that prefix were Starfleet ships in use by civilians.
As for Microsoft and the Borg, I leave you with this quip:
quote:
Microsoft are like a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, the Borg do the marketing and the Ferengi do the programming.
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Hunt: "You cheated!"
Rhade: "It's only cheating if you get caught."
-Andromeda, "Double Helix"
CC = Starfleet Operations
CC-F = SF Operations, logistics (SS Huron of TAS fame)
CC-G = SF Operations, agricultural (the grain drones of TAS)
X = Starfleet R&D
AR = planet Earth (or a suborganization thereof)
SP = planet Vulcan (ditto)
FT = planet Bogusia (ditto)
GL = planet Foolius (ditto)
It might be that there is systematicsm to the letters, so that A-anything is Earth and S-anything is Vulcan (for example, NAC is Earth local defences, NAR is Earth private/corporate civilian etc, NSC is Vulcan local defences, NSR is Vulcan private/corporate, etc.). Or then Earth is allocated letter pairs AA-AR, while Andor has AS-BG, Tellar has BH-BZ etc. (See, I did invent new prefixes in this reply after all! ) Foreign ships will be given prefixes beginning with non-N if some regulations require their proper registration to Federation authorities (YLT for Yridian ships frequenting Fed space, for example).
Then again, the letter pairs need not be systematic at all.
Timo Saloniemi