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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]The registry is from the show and the name, too.[/QUOTE]The name "Horatio" was of course mentioned, but I don't believe it's registry was ever mentioned. Do you mean the class? [QUOTE]The real problem is the fact that the Enterprise-C's more modern design became the Ambassador-class afterwards.[/QUOTE]Not quite. The Ent-C model was always supposed to represent the Ambassador class, from EAF with Porbert's painting, all the way to YE, with panels on the Ent-C stating the class of the ship. I realize that in YE, no one ever actually called the Ent-C an "Ambassador class" ship, AFAIK. But it was supposed to be one all the time. What I'm trying to figure out is the Ambassador/Excelsior conundrum. In the Encyclopedia, Okuda stated that the design for the Ambassador class was supposed to be a middle ground between the Excelsior and the Galaxy classes. This implies that the Excelsior was no longer in production, because the Ambassador was the (pardon the pun) next generation of Starfleet technology, just as the Galaxy would be the next step after the Ambassador. However, registry-wise, this is not the case. Here's a theory as to what might have happened: Somewhere between the years 2310 to 2320, production of the Ambassador class was started, and then abruptly halted, while production of the Excelsior class continued & exceeded the Ambassador well into the 2330's. This doesn't make sense to me, unless the Ambassador class had a serious design flaw which stopped production much sooner than anticipated, with the only other option being the continuation of Excelsior production in the meantime, with registries up to the 40000's. By the 2340's, newer types of ships like the Springfield, Niagara, Olympic, & Challenger classes came into production with 50000 registries, while Excelsiors finally became obsolete. By the 2350's, even more advanced ships such as the Nebula, Saber, Akira, & Norway classes emerged, and finally in the 2360's, the Galaxy class. And the reason why we always see so many Excelsiors, as opposed to the other, newer classes, was because so many Excelsiors were produced in the 50 years spanning 2285 to 2335, the need for more ships wasn't as great. That, or the newer ships fell victim to such things as the Cardassian wars, or again to more mundane things like design flaws. Any thoughts? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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