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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] You wouldn't necessarily have 9xx Connies because the Eagle wasn't so numbered until after the switch (I don't recall Joseph's number for it, but it was 17xx). However, you would have one 10xx Connie and one 13xx Connie (which are stated in the Manual to be refits of other ship classes, and which for some reason retained their original numbers after the switch). The point is that registry numbers aren't commonly used by people. People refer to "the Enterprise" or "Constitution-class Enterprise". The only time we've seen registry numbers is when they've been used to either 1) identify ships (read an unknown ship's number, look up the name in the computer -- example, Nog/Valiant, Yar/Ent-C, Riker/Yamato) 2) specify ships to a computer/recorder (Kirk/Republic, Scotty/Ent-nil). 3) list starships in computer databases. In all the cases, there's no need to complicate the registry scheme because humans don't need to decode numbers -- the computer does that easily. In reality, you don't even need a strict order -- only that a particular number refers to a particular ship at a time. However, for some reason people liked their numbers in some kind of a system during TOS, which would be abandoned later. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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