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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb]I promise you there is a U.S.S. Spector. Take a look at the "Starship Spotter" see that registery number? its NCC-63549.[/qb][/QUOTE]No, NCC-63549 is the [i]Thunderchild[/i]. The Fact Files accidentally flipped the numbers for the [i]Spector[/i] and [i]Thunderchild[/i]. The [i]Spector[/i] is NCC-65549. And the Akira CGI model has never been labeled as anything other than the [i]Thunderchild[/i]. The FF [i]did[/i] indeed make up the [i]Rabin[/i], [i]Spector[/i], and [i]Akira[/i]. But my point is that since they're an official reference publication, it's okay and these ships still "count", even if they never were onscreen. It's the same as with the [i]Renaissance[/i]-class [i]U.S.S. Hokkaido[/i] and [i]U.S.S. Ambassador[/i] NX-10521 from the TNG Technical Manual, or the [i]U.S.S. Danube[/i] NX-72003 and the [i]Defiant[/i] pathfinder NXP-2365WP/T from the DS9 Tech Manual. They were never in the actual show, but since they come from official source materials, they count. And this is true of the Encyclopedia too. In spite of what [b]TSN[/b] said, there are numbers and class designations in the book that didn't come from anywhere onscreen. Such as the [i]Antares[/i]-class [i]U.S.S. Antares[/i], NCC-501. Only the ship's name came from an actual onscreen reference. I don't need to go through all the examples. Some folks want to try and narrow their perspective to the smallest possible field, and they're the ones who follow a rigid regime of "only if it was seen or mentioned onscreen is it canon." But in this narrow-mindedness they fail to acknowledge the fact that there is some information outside of that range which, for all intents and purposes, falls into the category of canon material as well. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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