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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cpt. Kyle Amasov: [QB] This may sound a bit stupid, but I surfed through the old (the [i]really[/i] old threads and came across the starship Prometheus. And that made me think about the whole registry-debate. I did never accept the 59650 as the 'real' number. The reasons are obvious. They don't build a ship named Prometheus (and I assume - even if other ships get their names just before they are launched - that at least the Prototype, the project, gets a name.) while having another one in production. Even if it is mothballed. But maybe that's the key. What do we have? USS Melbourne. The ship was an Excelsior, no doubt, but the registry is the one from the Nebula (62xxx would be the highest Excelsior-registry ever). And we have a Nebula-[i]variant[/i], a prototype vessel. Same number, by the way. But most of all, same name. We have Prometheus. Whatever the number is, there is no proof that the Nebula-Prometheus has been destroyed before the new ship entered service or recieved a name. Again, a standard vessel and a Prototype with the same name. We have Endeavour. Allthough the part was re-written, the original script called for a new vessel, a prototype, Admiral Hayes flagship. And the com-chatter had a ship named Endeavour in the fleet, either the Nebula or the prototype. If the prototype never existed, fine; but if the ship did exist and participated in that battle, we have another one. Finally, Yeager. Besides the Sabre-class ship, there the kitbash. Could be a prototype. Nothing worth hiding from the enemy in my opinion, but still it could be a prototype, the first one starfleet has (based on the speculation that the one we saw on DS9 was the only one they had.). And Sabre-class Yeager survived the Borg-battle 2372. Even if it was destroyed, the 65674 predates 2372/73, anyway. What does it mean? We have eight ships with four different names. Maybe that's part of Starfleets security policy. I think it was Jackill's SRM that added some secret prototype vessels to another class, just by choosing sequentuial NCC's of that other class and assigning them to the prototype vessels. In the same way, sterfleet could have taken names of existing vessels, probably operating in the same area, to cover the existence of the prototypes. At least this makes more sense than the 'who said there can't be two different things called xyz and we choose to honor each of them by naming a vessel'-theory. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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