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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Noooo.... I know Star Trek is a high-budget show where the focus is on what's happening and who's doing it, and the VFX shots are there to connect the live-action scenes and put them in context. Much of the budget is sunk into said VFX shots, and there is a heirarchy of importance I ascribe to the data contained therein... F'r instance, to the layman, all a stock shot in TNG of the [i]Enterprise[/i] rendezvousing with an [i]Excelsior[/i]-class ship does is show that Our Heroes are meeting up with another ship in furtherance of whatever's going on (compare notes, transfer passengers, form a task force, whatever...). What ship it actually is almost always has nothing to do with the story. Any uses of ship names in said moments are fluff, icing, and registries are less important still. The only instances I can think of where a registry number has been pointed out onscreen are in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", with the four ships involved in the Epsilon 9 comm traffic; in "Where Silence Has Lease", with Riker recognizing the [i]Yamato[/i] from the (erroneous) registry on her ventral saucer; in "Hope and Fear", with the Voyager's bridge crew being puzzled by the fake [i]Dauntless[/i]' registry; and in "Yesterday's Enterprise", when Tasha read off what the transponder was telling her about the other ship. Three episodes out of over six hundred, plus one movie out of nine. [i]That's[/i] how important registries are to the settings and plots -- occasionally at best. I don't think they're a bunch of cheapskates who don't care. I think they're a bunch of busy people who have things more important to what they're working on to worry about. And forgive me if for some reason I feel Starfleet would not actually just slap some random numbers on their ships, whether they'd been used before or not, and maybe tack a letter on to the ones with these names, and all sorts of other crap that results in bookeeping nightmares. I apologise most sincerely for maintaining that they'd actually employ a system that makes logical sense and remains consistent. Maybe I'm just wacky, but for some reason I just don't think chaos theory should be applied to assigning starship registries. We know the boom mike operator wasn't [i]really[/i] standing there in the [i]Rio Grande[/i]'s cockpit. Why should we suspend the same critical thinking skills when we see two different classes of ship bearing the name [i]Melbourne[/i] and possessing the same registry? --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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