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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] It wasn't ridiculous at that time -- it's only ridiculous now because nowadays, the term starship no longer refers to simply Constitution-class. The TOS producers had clearly established in their writers' guide that there were 12 ships of what they called the starship-class, first of which were commissioned forty years before TOS. It's obvious that in "The Counter Clock Incident", April's age of 75 was calculated by adding 41 years to 34; the episode also establishes he was involved in the ship's construction and commanded the Enterprise for the next twenty-five years. All twelve ships had names but no registries, aside from the Constellation, Enterprise, and maybe the Constitution (did its registry appear in Khan's sickbay readouts in "Space Seed"?) Later on, I suppose someone assumed that the Constitution was the class ship because of its nice NCC-1700 registry, widely published in Franz Joseph's blueprints. Originally, however, the Enterprise was to be the first ship of the 17th class of vessels because of its -01 registry (Matt Jefferies). This could be where Joseph got the idea to number the ships sequentially (Constellation being an exception). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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