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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] The [i]Defiant[/i]'s 1764 registry is based on internal memos. In my not-remotely-humble opinion, the notion of any of the 16xx and the lone 18xx registry on the "Court Martial" chart are [i]Constitution[/i]-class ships is utter nonsense. The chart was created by Matt Jeffries using his personal roughed-out system of how registries are assigned. They are all Heavy Cruisers -- which is what "Starship" means in that context -- but only the 17xx registries are [i]Constitution[/i]s, for reasons laid out in pieces in several interviews with Jeffries. The [i]Merrimack[/i] is referenced at NCC-1715 in TMP, so that's canon. And as for the Operation: Retrieve displays, they are all [i]Enterprise[/i]-class silhouettes orientated the same direction. That, coupled with the [i]Excelsior[/i]-class silhouettes all orientated the same direction on the [i]Enterprise[/i]-B's helm (or was it navigation?) board, leads me to believe it is a generic position marker for ships with no regard to class. Far too much of what's come since the late '80s is based on the worst speculation. I wince at the "exhaustively researched" line on the Encyclopedia, when Mike still uses his half-baked registry system for the TOS-era ships, rather than [i][b]maybe[/b][/i] tracking down Matt Jeffries and talking to him like Herb and Fern did for the Star Trek Sketchbook. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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