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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] I agree that some things must be ignored. Stock footage, for example -- you can't tell me that the Enterprise is going to fly by at exactly the same angle so many times. Here, we have to allow for the possibility of something slightly different happening every time. I also mentioned actors playing different characters, and would add to that lips moving in English even when the language is alien yet universally translated. However, registry numbers don't fit the bill. They're obviously not chaotic, and I never said they were, but they're not perfectly regular either -- they follow a system with exceptions. That kind of thing is physically possible and reasonable, so we cannot ignore it, at least not if we're analyzing things. One such exception are the suffices on the Enterprises and a few other ships such as the Relativity. I'm arguing that other such exceptions are registries that are reused without suffices, picked in advance, or reserved for a certain types of ships. Starfleet is sufficiently computerized to allow for some randomness in its numbers -- all you need to have is a database matching current names with current registries. How hard is that? Cops must have something like that to allow for registries such as "I LOVE NY" or "NCC-1701". This slight looseness is consistent with the nature of Starfleet, which is not a military in the usual sense of the word. It's consistent with the practice of suffixed registries. It's the kind of system that works for this particular show, given that you can't control everything that's going on onscreen. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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