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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] Getting back to the original topic of starship duration times, IMHO I believe Star Trek (and to an extent, Michael Okuda & Rick Sternbach) has really screwed this up, based on the registry numbers of the ships we've seen. I'm basing this, of course, on the hypothesis that registry numbers are chronological; if they aren't, there's be no argument from me. Anyway, once TNG premiered, TPTB had to recycle old movie models because the budget wouldn't allow any more new ships other than the Ent-D. For the first season, the Excelsior and Grissom models were used, without their names or registries changed (the movie Enterprise model would have been used as well, if Greg Jein hadn't decided to build a different model for the Stargazer, but that's another story). It was believable that these ships could still be on active duty; however being of the Kirk-era, it was also taken for granted that these were older ships probably being phased out by the Galaxy generation. IIRC, the first movie model ever to be used with a new name & reg was the Lantree, a reuse of the Reliant model, but with a different yet similar low 4-digit registry. Again, this was believable because by the late 24th century, this Kirk-era ship had been relegated to transport duty. However, all of a sudden Okuda decides to fill displays and relabel movie-era models with ridiculously high registries (3XXXX for Mirandas, 4xxxx for Excelsiors, 5XXXX for Oberths), and then proceed to give a more advanced ship a registry even lower than all of these (1XXXX & 2XXXX for Ambassadors!). Then, by DS9 we see a myriad of Excelsiors & Mirandas on active duty fighting a war against a superior power (this was only because the CGI guys made the models because they had the physical model to go by). None of this makes sense realistically. As someone earlier said, even technological upgrades can only go so far, especially when the [i]exterior[/i] of the ship never changes! Okuda should have given every Excelsior, Miranda & Oberth a lower registry than he did, IMO. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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