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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]quote: so Titan was 80102 in 2379, but Stargazer is 82893 in 2401, so only 2700 ships in 22 years? After a war? NO. It doesn't make sense, because 82893 is an easter egg. 2893 was the old Stargazer's registry. Which leads me to the 3 gold-plated models in the ship's ready room: Radiant-class from the TOS era Constellation-class Sagan-class[/QUOTE]I watched a WWII documentary a few weeks ago that made an interesting point: most militaries, when producing items requiring a serial number -- particularly, say, tanks -- randomize the numbers. The Germans didn't. So if you captured a tank, and you saw it was stamped unit #650, you knew the Germans had produced at LEAST 650 tanks. Couldn't an enemy force use the highly visible Starfleet registry number to a similar purpose? Certainly not exact, but if you had an intelligence service, and you knew Starfleet had an active duty of, say, NCC-26500, and then you knew that the highest number was NCC-80,000, you knew Starfleet had, potentially, as many as 53,500 starships in service. But! If we don't want to accept that Starfleet might randomly shift registry numbers around (at least for a few more centuries, as we really shouldn't be seeing four-and-five digit registries in the current time frame of Discovery), another possible explanation: For whatever reason, Starfleet assigned a range of numbers for a production of a specific class of starship. Perhaps the class was delayed, or there were significant design issues which resulted in the class being scrapped, or significantly reworked. The new Stargazer, then, is either part of a class that was long delayed in entering service; or, Starfleet decided that the initial production run -- eventually -- wasn't going to happen, and reassigned those numbers to a new class (the new Stargazer type). Or, the Stargazer is actually a bit older than we believe it to be, perhaps recently refitted (I've only seen the episode once and I can't recall if it's described as a brand new ship). Regarding the displays featuring the movie-era Excelsior and Picard's Stargazer: I interpreted this as a bit of a museum piece -- look at the ships our new ships are named for. If the Stargazer, Picard's, had been reactivated due to an extreme shortage of vessels, it is hard to imagine Starfleet would want two ships in service at the same time with the same names (just to minimize the risk of miscommunication, no matter how slight). Anyway, looking forward to Eaglemoss's models of the Lower Decks and Picard versions of a re-imagined Excelsior. Gives weight to a long standing argument that the Akira-Class was designed in honor of the NX Class (in universe, as I do know the production reason is the reverse; similar to how Volkswagen and Jeep have made Beetles and Wranglers which look like modern version of classic vehicles). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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