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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] The history of the [i]Constellation[/i] and [i]Miranda[/i] classes was expounded upon in [URL=http://flare.solareclipse.net/cgi2/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=002037;p=1#000000]this article[/URL] by Rick Sternbach in Star Trek: The Magaizne some months ago. He says (and I happen to agree) that the [i]Miranda[/i] and [i]Soyuz[/i] were outgrowths of the [i]Constitution[/i]-class refit program, and therefore did not exist in some other form prior to the 2270s. They, and the [i]Constellation[/i] are products of the movie era. About registries, it could easily be that there are certain blocks or ranges that are sometimes reserved for particluar projects in advance. Therefore, if SF knew it was going to be expanding in the near future, they might have set aside the NCC-1800 to NCC-1900 range for that purpose. When the [i]Excelsior[/i] project was first initiated, it got NX-2000 reserved and then things went from there. The Connies continued on in the NCC-1700 range Thus you have all your new vessels from the movie era with registries in those three ranges. The oddities like the Connies may be a result of Starfleet going back and filling gaps in the system by assigning registries that were reserved at some point in the past for something but never ended up being used to other vessels. Or something. Of course, as I said, the only reason why the [i]Excelsior[/i] need be thought of as having been conceived so early is because of the NCC-2120 in TMP. But, as we all know, that number was taken from Franz Joseph, whose registries weren't sequential between classes at all... :rolleyes: -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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